Roald Dahl Quotes

When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
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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Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Believe Finding Inspirational Magic Morning Positive
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
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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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
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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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
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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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher

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