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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.

Roald Dahl

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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Book Children Writing
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
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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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret

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 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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