When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHLI doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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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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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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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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