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.
ALAN BRADLEYIt is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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