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 DAHLSo 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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