Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
ROALD DAHLThe greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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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.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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.
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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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