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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.

Roald Dahl

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
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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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
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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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Brillance Glory Moments One Liner
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
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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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
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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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look

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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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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