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

Roald Dahl

Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Disguise Humour Nose Practice Sex Watch Yourself
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Business Face Goodness Inspirational Positive Shine Sun
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
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
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil

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

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