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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
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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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
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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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
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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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Children Inspirational Learning Look Risk Success
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil
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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Memories School Shoes Stair
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
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
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Believe Fellow Fortunate Myself Positive Time

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

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