I’m wondering what to read next.
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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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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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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