It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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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 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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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