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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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