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 DAHLGood writing is essentially rewriting.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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If you are good life is good.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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