When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHLMe is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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 heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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