Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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