If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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 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 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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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 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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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