Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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