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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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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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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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