Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEYIf you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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