For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
ROALD DAHLIf I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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