I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
ROALD DAHLI have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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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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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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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.
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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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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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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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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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