The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYWhat intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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 frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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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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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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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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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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My 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.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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