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 DAHLI began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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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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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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