You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
ROALD DAHLI 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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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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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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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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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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