What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
ROALD DAHLI am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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