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.
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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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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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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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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.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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