Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
ROALD DAHLYou can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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