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.
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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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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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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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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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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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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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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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