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.
ROALD DAHLWe have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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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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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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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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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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