The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
ROALD DAHLWriting is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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