Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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