The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
ROALD DAHLYou should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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