I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
ROALD DAHLI was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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