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.
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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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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