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 DAHLI’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
-
-
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
ROALD DAHL -
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
ROALD DAHL -
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
ROALD DAHL -
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
ROALD DAHL -
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHL -
If you are good life is good.
ROALD DAHL -
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.
ROALD DAHL -
I’m wondering what to read next.
ROALD DAHL -
Obscurity is never a virtue.
ROALD DAHL -
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
ROALD DAHL -
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
ROALD DAHL -
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
ROALD DAHL -
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
ROALD DAHL -
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
ROALD DAHL -
I 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 DAHL