A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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 writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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 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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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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