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.
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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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