I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
ROALD DAHLWhen 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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