Two rights don’t equal a left.
ROALD DAHLWriting is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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 snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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