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.
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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved 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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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 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 fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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