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.
ROALD DAHLWatch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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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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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 more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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If you are good life is good.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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