To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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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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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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 dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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