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.
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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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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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