I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
ROALD DAHLWhen writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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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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I’m wondering what to read next.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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