Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
ROALD DAHLDon’t gobblefunk around with words.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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 began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Then 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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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.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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