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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

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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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Business Inspirational Reverse Strike Time Work Hard
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
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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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
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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Memories School Shoes Stair
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Black Broker Coal Gold Ship
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Believe Fellow Fortunate Myself Positive Time
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
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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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
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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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World

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