Good writing is essentially rewriting.
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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