The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
ROALD DAHLA 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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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