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.
ALAN BRADLEYCompared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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 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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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 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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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