All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
ROALD DAHLPain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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