"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... 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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Source : "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". March 8, 2013, www.reuters.com. Interview with Noreen O'Donnell.

Alan Bradley

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“The single most effective way to make a service as reliable as possible is to make it as simple as possible. Find the simplest solution that meets all the requirements.”
“At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.”

Source : "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.
“Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?”
“My profession is called record production.”
“Don't be the team that gets hurt.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com
“Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not, that you're doing something of value when you're just using up paper, that you're a writer when in fact you're just going through the motions of one. Look at me! I have blank paper in front of me-and now I'm filling it, with words!”
“Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.”
“If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.”

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