A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
ROALD DAHLRainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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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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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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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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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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So 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.
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