Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
ROALD DAHLGrown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
ROALD DAHLIf you are good life is good.
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
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.
ROALD DAHLWe all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
ROALD DAHLI have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
ROALD DAHLA 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 DAHLWe make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
ROALD DAHLI’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
ROALD DAHLSo please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
ROALD DAHLAll the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
ROALD DAHLThe reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
ROALD DAHLI began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
ROALD DAHLAnd above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
ROALD DAHLWhen writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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