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.
To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. - Alan Bradley
To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
- Alan Bradley
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. - Alan Bradley
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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 … - Alan Bradley
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 …
It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago bec… - Alan Bradley
It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago bec…
If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide. - Alan Bradley
If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. - Alan Bradley
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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, del… - Alan Bradley
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, del…
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 instan… - Alan Bradley
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 instan…
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, o… - Alan Bradley
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, o…
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