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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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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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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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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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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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