When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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