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.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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 fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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