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.
ROALD DAHLWhen 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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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