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.
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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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