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.
ROALD DAHLWhen you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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If you are good life is good.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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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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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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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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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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