Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
ROALD DAHLI 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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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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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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