I’m wondering what to read next.
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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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