I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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