Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLWe have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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 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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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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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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I’m wondering what to read next.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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