Obscurity is never a virtue.
ROALD DAHLFor me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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