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.
ROALD DAHLThe walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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 think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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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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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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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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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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