All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
ENID BLYTONI think people make their own faces, as they grow.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off,
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Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers.
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before – but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever.
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They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them – I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them – the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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