I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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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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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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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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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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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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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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.
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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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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