For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
ROALD DAHLA 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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.
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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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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