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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. And That First Love Affair Between The Young Child And The Young Book Will Lead Hopefully To Other Loves For Other Books And When That Happens The Battle Is Probably Won. The Child Will Have Found A Crock Of Gold. He Will Also Have Gained Something That Will Help To Carry Him Most Marvelously Through The Tangles Of His Later Years. Roald Dahl

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.

... And When He Put His Mind To It, He Could Make His Words Coil Themselves Around And Around The Listener Until They Held Her In Some Sort Of A Mild Hypnotic Spell.

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.

You'll Never Get Anywhere If You Go About What-iffing Like That.