The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
ROALD DAHLGive us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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