We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
ROALD DAHLThose who don’t believe in magic will never find 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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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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 you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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 understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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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.
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