Good writing is essentially rewriting.
ROALD DAHLThough my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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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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If you are good life is good.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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