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.
ROALD DAHLIt’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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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