What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEYChildren 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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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 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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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