A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
ROALD DAHLI 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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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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