Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
ALAN BRADLEYI 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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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 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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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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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 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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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