One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
ALAN BRADLEYAs 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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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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