When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
ROALD DAHLAn autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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