TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
ALAN BRADLEYAnyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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 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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