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.
ALAN BRADLEYMy 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.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
ALAN BRADLEYExcept I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
ALAN BRADLEYIt makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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.
ALAN BRADLEYThe spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
ALAN BRADLEYI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEYLiberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
ALAN BRADLEYOne that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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 BRADLEYI 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.
ALAN BRADLEYAnd I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
ALAN BRADLEYThey were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
ALAN BRADLEY