One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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 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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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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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 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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