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.
ROALD DAHLThough my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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