black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Roald Dahl

Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
ROALD DAHL

Disguise Humour Nose Practice Sex Watch Yourself
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
ROALD DAHL

Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
ROALD DAHL

Funny Humour
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
ROALD DAHL

Eyes Glitter Magic Watch World
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
ROALD DAHL

Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
ROALD DAHL

Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
ROALD DAHL

Chocolate History Teacher
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

Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
ROALD DAHL

Business Change Inspirational Power World
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
ROALD DAHL

Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
ROALD DAHL

Food Fruit One Liner Taste
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
ROALD DAHL

Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHL

Book Children Writing
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
ROALD DAHL

Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
ROALD DAHL

Humour Right Wrong
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
ROALD DAHL

Calender Extra Humour Remove

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Roald Dahl Quotes