When 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.
ROALD DAHLNowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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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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