Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
ROALD DAHLThe reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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 life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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