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.
ROALD DAHLI understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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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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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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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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