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.
ROALD DAHLHaving power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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