Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
ROALD DAHLThe reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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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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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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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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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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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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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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