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.
ROALD DAHLYou can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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 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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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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