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.
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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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 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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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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