Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLIf you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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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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