It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLIf I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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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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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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