The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
ROALD DAHLSex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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