510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!

I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.