The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
ROALD DAHLGood writing is essentially rewriting.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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