Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHLCareful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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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.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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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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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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A little magic can take you a long way.
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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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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