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.
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 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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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All 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.
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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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