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.
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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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