Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
ALAN BRADLEYAll 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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 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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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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