It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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.
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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 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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