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.
ROALD DAHLWriting is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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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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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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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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