Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around 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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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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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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