During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
ALAN BRADLEYAnd 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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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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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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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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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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