The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
ROALD DAHLIf I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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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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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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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