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 DAHLAnd don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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If you are good life is good.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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