I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
ALAN BRADLEYI always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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 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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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