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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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