If you are good life is good.
Roald DahlTags: humor
Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
Roald DahlTags: storyteller
Obscurity is never a virtue.
Roald DahlTags: storyteller
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Roald DahlI began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
Roald DahlTags: inspirational passion enthusiasm passionate-living
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
Roald DahlOne of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a year, is how to keep the momentum going. It is the same with a young person writing an essay. They have got to write four or five or six pages. But when you are writing it for a year, you go away and you have to come back. I never come back to a blank page; I always finish about halfway through. To be confronted with a blank page is not very nice. But Hemingway, a great American writer, taught me the finest trick when you are doing a long book, which is, he simply said in his own words, “When you are going good, stop writing.” And that means that if everything’s going well and you know exactly where the end of the chapter’s going to go and you know just what the people are going to do, you don’t go on writing and writing until you come to the end of it, because when you do, then you say, well, where am I going to go next? And you get up and you walk away and you don’t want to come back because you don’t know where you want to go. But if you stop when you are going good, as Hemingway said…then you know what you are going to say next. You make yourself stop, put your pencil down and everything, and you walk away. And you can’t wait to get back because you know what you want to say next and that’s lovely and you have to try and do that. Every time, every day all the way through the year. If you stop when you are stuck, then you are in trouble!
Roald DahlTwo wrongs don't make a right.
Roald DahlLa vita di uno scrittore è un vero inferno, confrontata a quella di un uomo d’affari. Lo scrittore deve forzarsi a lavorare, deve imporsi un proprio orario e, se non gli va di sedersi alla scrivania, nessuno lo rimprovera. Se è un romanziere, vive nel terrore: ogni nuovo giorno esige nuove idee, e non si è mai certi che arriveranno puntuali.
Dopo due ore passate si sente completamente svuotato. Durante quelle due ore s’è trovato mille miglia lontano, in un altro luogo, in compagnia di gente totalmente diversa, e lo sforzo che deve fare per tornare indietro a nuoto, nel presente, è assai grande. E’ quasi un trauma. […] Bisogna essere pazzi per fare gli scrittori.
La loro sola compensazione è un’assoluta libertà. Il loro unico padrone è la loro anima ed è per questo che hanno fatto quella scelta, ne sono certo.
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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