When 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 DAHLThe books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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If you are good life is good.
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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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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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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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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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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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