Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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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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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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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.
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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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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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If you are good life is good.
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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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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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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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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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