Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
ROALD DAHLPerhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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If you are good life is good.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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The 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.
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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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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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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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