Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLWe make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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