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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.

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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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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 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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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 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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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 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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