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 DAHLI’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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