Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
ROALD DAHLFor me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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