Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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 reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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