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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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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Amazing Book Excitement Inspirational Introduction Live People Transport
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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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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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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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive

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