Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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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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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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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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