Roald Dahl Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

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  Hate, Book, Reading

• For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

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  Writing, Stories, Pleasure

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.233, Penguin

• Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

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  Writing, Two, People

• Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Perspiration

• You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

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  Children, Writing, Long

• The 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. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl

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  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Children

• Good writing is essentially rewriting.

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  Writing, Rewriting, Good Writing

• An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

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  Book, Writing, Details

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.10, Penguin

• When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

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  Writing, Important, Modesty

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.41, Penguin

• When 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.

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  Children, Book, Writing

• I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

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  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.99, Penguin

• When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

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  Writing, Long Walks, Long

  Roald Dahl (2001). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

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  Writing, Stories, Fifty

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

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  Children, Book, Writing

• When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.

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  Book, Writing, Ties

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