To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEYDuring 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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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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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