Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
ALAN BRADLEYIf poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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