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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.

Roald Dahl

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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Book Children Writing
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Accomplishment Book Children Help Important Reading Success
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
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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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
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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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
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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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself

You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.

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