Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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.
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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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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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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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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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