We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
ROALD DAHLYou chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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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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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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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 I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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