I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
ALAN BRADLEYI dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
-
-
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
ALAN BRADLEY -
What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEY -
They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
ALAN BRADLEY -
I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY -
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
ALAN BRADLEY -
And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
ALAN BRADLEY -
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.
ALAN BRADLEY