I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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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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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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