A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
ROALD DAHLPain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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 your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find 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 chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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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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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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