And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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