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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.

Roald Dahl

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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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Absolute Businessman Comparison Life Writer
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success

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