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 BRADLEYOne of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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 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 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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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 had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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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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