I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
ROALD DAHLYou can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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If you are good life is good.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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