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 BRADLEYI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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.
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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.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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