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.
ROALD DAHLA writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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