I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
ROALD DAHLPerhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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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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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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The 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.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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