Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHLSo 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about 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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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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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 doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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