What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
ROALD DAHLFairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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