For 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!
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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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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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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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’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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I 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.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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