Good writing is essentially rewriting.
ROALD DAHLIf you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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If you are good life is good.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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