Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
ROALD DAHLThe reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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