Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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A 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.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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