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 BRADLEYChicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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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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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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I 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.
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