When 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 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 DAHLSo 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.
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 DAHLThere is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
ROALD DAHLThen suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
ROALD DAHLYou chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHLWriting is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
ROALD DAHLThose who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
ROALD DAHLRainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
ROALD DAHLIf you are good life is good.
ROALD DAHLf I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
ROALD DAHLTo shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
ROALD DAHLI began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
ROALD DAHLI 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.
ROALD DAHLGive us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
ROALD DAHLI am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
ROALD DAHL