I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
ENID BLYTONIt wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off,
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You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
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The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before – but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever.
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake.
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All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them – but let’s hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we’re men and women.
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I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it’s feeble to change your mind once it’s made up. That’s a wrong idea, you know.
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Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers.
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The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them – I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them – the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
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I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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