There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
ROALD DAHLI was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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