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.
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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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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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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