I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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 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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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