I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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If you are good life is good.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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A 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
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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