Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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