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 DAHLThere is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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If you are good life is good.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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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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