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 DAHLGood writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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 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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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