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.
ROALD DAHLA person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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