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.
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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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I’m wondering what to read next.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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