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 DAHLBut 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 DAHLWhen 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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ROALD DAHLThe snozberries taste like snozberries!
ROALD DAHLI was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
ROALD DAHLI’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
ROALD DAHLI have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
ROALD DAHLDon’t gobblefunk around with words.
ROALD DAHLAn autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
ROALD DAHLI am suspicious of both facility and speed.
ROALD DAHLI think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
ROALD DAHLWriting is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
ROALD DAHLFor me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
ROALD DAHLWhat a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
ROALD DAHLTwo hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
ROALD DAHLThen suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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