You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
ROALD DAHLYou can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
ROALD DAHLThe writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
ROALD DAHLHuman ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
ROALD DAHLBut there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
ROALD DAHLI am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
ROALD DAHLThose who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
ROALD DAHLWriting is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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 DAHLI 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.
ROALD DAHLIf you are good life is good.
ROALD DAHLA little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
ROALD DAHLThe snozberries taste like snozberries!
ROALD DAHLI 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.
ROALD DAHLIf the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
ROALD DAHLNowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
ROALD DAHLNever 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.
ROALD DAHL