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.
ROALD DAHLIf you are good life is good.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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If you are good life is good.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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