I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
ROALD DAHLIf the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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