The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
ROALD DAHLf I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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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 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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