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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.

Roald Dahl

Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
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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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Business Inspirational Reverse Strike Time Work Hard
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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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
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
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
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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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
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
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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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
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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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World

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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