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.
ROALD DAHLWatch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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