If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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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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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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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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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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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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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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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