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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.

Roald Dahl

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
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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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Memories School Shoes Stair
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
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
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
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
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
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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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Absolute Compensation Excep Fools Freedom Master Person Soul Sure
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing

When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.

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