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.
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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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 writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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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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