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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

When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Brillance Glory Moments One Liner
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
Two rights don’t equal a left.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
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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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Couple Love Matter
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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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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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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