When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
ROALD DAHLI am suspicious of both facility and speed.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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If you are good life is good.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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 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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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.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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Pain 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.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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