Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
ROALD DAHLCareful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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