I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
ROALD DAHLI have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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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 do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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