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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.

Roald Dahl

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
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
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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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Business Face Goodness Inspirational Positive Shine Sun
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
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
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
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
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
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
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
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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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
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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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant

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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