I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
ROALD DAHLThe writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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