When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHLWe are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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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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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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