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 BRADLEYExcept I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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