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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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