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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Roald Dahl

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
ROALD DAHL

Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
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
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
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.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
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
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing

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