Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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 grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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