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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Roald Dahl

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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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Absolute Compensation Excep Fools Freedom Master Person Soul Sure
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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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
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
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
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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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
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
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
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

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