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 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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 of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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 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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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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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