I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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 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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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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 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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