The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
ROALD DAHLThe reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
ROALD DAHLThe writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
ROALD DAHLWhen I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHLLife is more fun if you play games.
ROALD DAHLBut it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
ROALD DAHLWhen you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
ROALD DAHLWhat a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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 do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
ROALD DAHLThe snozberries taste like snozberries!
ROALD DAHLAnd above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
ROALD DAHLThose who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
ROALD DAHLWhen you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
ROALD DAHLPerhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
ROALD DAHLThough my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHLWe make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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