It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLWriting is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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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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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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If you are good life is good.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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