I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
ROALD DAHLA person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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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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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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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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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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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.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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