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You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Wing Commander Roald Dahl
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Matilda said, Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
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There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
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Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
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(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
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I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.
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Eschew all those beastly adjectives.
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All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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