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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Roald Dahl

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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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
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
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Book Children Writing
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
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
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Believe Finding Inspirational Magic Morning Positive
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
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
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
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
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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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

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