I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
ALAN BRADLEYNot 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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 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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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