When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHLSomewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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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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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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