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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Roald Dahl

When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
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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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Children Inspirational Learning Look Risk Success
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
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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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil

I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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