I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
ROALD DAHLFairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Never 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.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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If you are good life is good.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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