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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

Roald Dahl

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

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