What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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