Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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