The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
ROALD DAHLA person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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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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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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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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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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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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