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.
ALAN BRADLEYOne that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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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 was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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