We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
ROALD DAHL
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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 have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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 books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.