Bradfield Quotes

#1. If I've ever made you feel less than crucial to my life, I
apologize. Because you are important to me. Actually important doesn't even cover it. You are
fundamental to who I am. There is no Daniel Lowe without Rachel Bradfield.

A Meredith Walters

#2. I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

Martin Ryle

#3. Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, "That bullshit only works on intelligent people.

Joseph Wambaugh

#4. Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.

Scott Bradfield

#5. I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways that make interior human sense, even when they aren't entirely believable.

Scott Bradfield

#6. Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.

Georgette Mosbacher

#7. I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.

Scott Bradfield

#8. If everyone practices the power of their love, there will be happiness and no war.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy - unlike the cumulative experience of seeking publishers for them!

Scott Bradfield

#10. I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murderess - and to imagine how these disparate individuals see the world's cruelty and beauty and vastness.

Scott Bradfield

#11. Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

James Dean Bradfield

#12. I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age.

Scott Bradfield

#13. Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#14. All men would be cowards if they could.

John Wilmot

#15. If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

Saul David

#16. For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.

Scott Bradfield

#17. Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels as if readers are looking for the same style/approach from the same writer over and over again, which hasn't helped me in the publishing biz.

Scott Bradfield

#18. I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

James Dean Bradfield

#19. As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.

Stephen Karam

#20. We all make terrible mistakes in our lives.

Scott Bradfield

#21. Take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

Scott Bradfield

#22. Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.

Scott Bradfield

#23. It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.

Brian Tracy

#24. To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Carl Jung

#25. Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.

Agatha Christie

#26. In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

Scott Bradfield

#27. For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapidly out of print and stayed there, I wised up and started assembling them in e-format editions.

Scott Bradfield

#28. What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Nancy Grace

#29. Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Seneca The Younger