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.
ROALD DAHLAnd don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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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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I’m wondering what to read next.
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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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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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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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