I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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