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!
ROALD DAHLWhen 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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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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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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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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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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