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.
ROALD DAHLWhen you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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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