Roald Dahl Quotes
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.
I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.
The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.
You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.
I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.
Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.
I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.
...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.