Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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 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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TV 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.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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