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 DAHLFor me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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