I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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 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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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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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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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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