The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
ROALD DAHLIf you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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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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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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