Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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 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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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