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Writing Quotes by Roald Dahl
- Good writing is essentially rewriting.
- By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one…
- You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
- Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
- 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.
- An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
- 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…
- When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
- For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
- When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
- When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless…
- I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to…
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