Roald Dahl

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

— Roald Dahl

You is getting nosier than a parker.

— Roald Dahl

careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

— Roald Dahl

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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“I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a…

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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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It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

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I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

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

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It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,…

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When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the…

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I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled…

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When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,…

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You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once…

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“Round the world and home again That's the sailor's way Faster faster, faster faster There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction…

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“England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He…

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“With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.…

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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it's impossible to make…

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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…

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“Did you know", Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times…

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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“ Mice, I felt pretty certain, all like each other. People don't. ”

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I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

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Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

— Roald Dahl

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring…

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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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“A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.”

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“That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”

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There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

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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 understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

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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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Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

— Roald Dahl