An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
ROALD DAHLFor me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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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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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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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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