Good writing is essentially rewriting.
ROALD DAHLWhat a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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