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.
ROALD DAHLWriting is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. 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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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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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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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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