Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
ROALD DAHLWhen writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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