Christopher Fowler Quotes

Christopher Fowler
English Writer
Born: Mar 26, 1953
Always Father Me Old School Sense
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best. Christopher Fowler
Best Dark Philip Everyone Writers Term Like Genre Sure Always Fiction Fiction Writers Loved
Too many new writers dress up old cliches. Christopher Fowler
Old Too Dress Dress-Up Writers New Cliches Up Many
My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills. Christopher Fowler
Brilliant Father Job Show Off Once Constructed He Glass Instruments Scientific Built His Brain Off Lab Human Just Where Human Brain Regarded Worked Skills Show Designed
I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents. Christopher Fowler
Myself Smoking Old Men Harold Television Puppets Pottery Bother Accents Because Discussed Pipes Wheels While Elderly Largely
By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university. Christopher Fowler
Time Me Money School Father Every Every Time Local Books Would Arm Reached Him Passed Go Stack Sixth Form Grammar Grammar School Warning By The Time University
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency. Christopher Fowler
School Job First Monday London Following Shared Thursday First Job House Advertising Advertising Agency Left Wet North Afternoon Room Agency Found Started
As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could. Christopher Fowler
Family Post-War London Cash Could Had Ready South Child Wherever Dysfunctional Amusement
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887. Christopher Fowler
Personality Few Say Complex Detective Physical Give More Consulting He Conan Conceived Concept Well Fresh Still Sherlock Sherlock Holmes Very Sir Leg Arthur Wooden Famous Holmes Disorders Many Original Why Need
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator. Christopher Fowler
Queen Crime Plot About More Never Investigator Concerned Cleverness Always Clockwork Agatha Christie

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