Except 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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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 most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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