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 DAHLGrown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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If you are good life is good.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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