Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
ROALD DAHLIf my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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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 have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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