If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
ROALD DAHLWhen 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.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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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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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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