To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
ROALD DAHLTo shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
ROALD DAHLThe greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
ROALD DAHLI understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
ROALD DAHLThe greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
ROALD DAHLIt doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
ROALD DAHLDon’t gobblefunk around with words.
ROALD DAHLYou can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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 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 DAHLYou chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHLThe 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.
ROALD DAHLTwo rights don’t equal a left.
ROALD DAHLAn autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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 DAHLThe 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.
ROALD DAHLIf you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
ROALD DAHL