And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
ROALD DAHLA little magic can take you a long way.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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