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 DAHLI am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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If you are good life is good.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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