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 BRADLEYI 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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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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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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