Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
ROALD DAHLKindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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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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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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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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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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I 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.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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