Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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