510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

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.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be

Two wrongs don't make a right.