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Roald Dahl

British

September 13, 1916

Novelist

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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

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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.

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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

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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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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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