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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.

Roald Dahl

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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
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 the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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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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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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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.

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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.

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