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 DAHLThe greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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 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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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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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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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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 little magic can take you a long way.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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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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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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