The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
ROALD DAHLHaving power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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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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If you are good life is good.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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