One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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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 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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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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 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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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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