I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
ROALD DAHLWatch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
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I 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.
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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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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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If you are good life is good.
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