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 DAHLIt doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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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 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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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