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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.

Roald Dahl

Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
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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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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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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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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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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