When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
ROALD DAHLWhen writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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 life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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