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
ROALD DAHLWhen I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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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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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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If you are good life is good.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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