Alan Bradley Quotes, Children Quotes, Writing Quotes

Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. 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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - 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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If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.

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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. 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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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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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

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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 to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

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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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