I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
ALAN BRADLEYI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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 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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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