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 DAHLThere is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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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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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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