For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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I 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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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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