I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
ROALD DAHLNever 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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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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If you are good life is good.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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