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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.

Roald Dahl

When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
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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Humour Right Wrong
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Book Children Writing
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality

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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