I always woke up before the plane landed.
ALAN BRADLEYIt makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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As 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.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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