Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
ROALD DAHLTwo 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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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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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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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