To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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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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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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