Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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