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.
ROALD DAHLA life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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The 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.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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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 I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July 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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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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I 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.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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