I Don't Care If A Reader Hates

The Fine Line Between Roaring With Laughter And Crying Because It's A Disaster Is A Very, Very Fine Line. You See A Chap Slip On A Banana Skin In The Street And You Roar With Laughter When He Falls Slap On His Backside. If In Doing So You Suddenly See He's Broken A Leg, You Very Quickly Stop Laughing And It's Not A Joke Anymore.

The Reason I Collect Good Ideas Is Because Plots Themselves Are Very Difficult Indeed To Come By.

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 Write Them. It Is The Most Scrumdiddlyumptious Story.' Sophie Took The Book Out Of His Hand. 'nicholas Nickleby,' She Read Aloud. 'by Dahl's Chickens,' The Bfg Said.

There Are Many Other Little Refinements Too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll See Them All When You Study The Plans Carefully. For Example, There's A Trick That Nearly Every Writer Uses, Of Inserting At Least One Long, Obscure Word Into Each Story. This Makes The Reader Think That The Man Is Very Wise And Clever. So I Have The Machine Do The Same Thing. There'll Be A Whole Stack Of Long Words Stored Away Just For This Purpose." Where?" In The 'word-memory' Section," He Said, Epexegetically.

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.