I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
ALAN BRADLEYAlthough it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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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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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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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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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 frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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