The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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 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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