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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Roald Dahl

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Amazing Book Excitement Inspirational Introduction Live People Transport
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
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
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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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
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
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Business Face Goodness Inspirational Positive Shine Sun
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Book Children Writing
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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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

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