It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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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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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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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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