Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
ROALD DAHLGrown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
ROALD DAHLWhen you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
ROALD DAHLTwo rights don’t equal a left.
ROALD DAHLThe snozberries taste like snozberries!
ROALD DAHLCareful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
ROALD DAHLIf you are good life is good.
ROALD DAHLSome children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
ROALD DAHLKindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
ROALD DAHLSo 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.
ROALD DAHLIt doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
ROALD DAHLHaving power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
ROALD DAHLYou chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHLIf you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
ROALD DAHLRainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
ROALD DAHLWhat a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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