I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
ALAN BRADLEYI love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
ALAN BRADLEYAs 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.
ALAN BRADLEYI am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
ALAN BRADLEYExcept I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
ALAN BRADLEYThen 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.
ALAN BRADLEYI dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYDuring a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
ALAN BRADLEYTV 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.
ALAN BRADLEYWhat intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEYMy grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
ALAN BRADLEYCompared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
ALAN BRADLEYI grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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