Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
ROALD DAHLAnd 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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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 cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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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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