Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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