If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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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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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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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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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