I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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