If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
ROALD DAHLDo you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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