When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
ROALD DAHLI’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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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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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 my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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