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.
ALAN BRADLEYAlthough 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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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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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 you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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