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.
ROALD DAHLThe writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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