If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
ROALD DAHLWhen I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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 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 found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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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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