black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.

Related Topics

Adult Aware Away Expect Get Much Write

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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 BRADLEY

Book Country English Family Fill Grandmother Grew House State Transplant
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
ALAN BRADLEY

Chemistry Chicken Experiment Fizz Lord Protect Toil Vineyard
I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEY

Among Belly Better Friend Laugh Learn Smile
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.
ALAN BRADLEY

Death Father Good Life Man Military Not Very
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.
ALAN BRADLEY

Attention Back Beam Catch Culprit Darkness Expect Fugitive Least Sneak Sudden
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
ALAN BRADLEY

Broadcast Career Contribution Creation Long People Spent Television
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.
ALAN BRADLEY

Best Come Discover Formula Long Mind Refuse Something Thing Tiger Word
The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEY

Best Entangle Flypaper Like People
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.
ALAN BRADLEY

Cow Heaven Hour Lane Library Occur Open Outside Place Stood Twenty Four Week
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.
ALAN BRADLEY

Book Character Familiar Form Identify Love Read Type
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
ALAN BRADLEY

Believe Book Child Early Father Forbidden Grandmother Read Reader
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
ALAN BRADLEY

Board Drown Include Leftist Liberal List Sack Spectrum Whiny
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.
ALAN BRADLEY

Book Brought Country Early Great Love Magazine Newspaper Reader Surround
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEY

Although Pleasant Christmas Found Ginning Myself Season Something Special Think
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
ALAN BRADLEY

Anyone Cultivate Friend Knew Slattern World Worth
If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
ALAN BRADLEY

Cyanide Money Poison Pony Put

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes