Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
ROALD DAHLThe reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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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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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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