Roald Dahl Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Trying, Wheels, Littles

  Roald Dahl (1968). “Selected stories of Roald Dahl”

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• Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

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  Crazy, Half, Want

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Writing

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

  Roald Dahl

  Hell, Businessman, Absolutes

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• 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

  Roald Dahl

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Children

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Reading, Wonderful

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.79, Penguin

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• Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

  Roald Dahl

  Candy, Dandy

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• If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at 50" by Lucy Mangan, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.

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• Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

  Roald Dahl

  World, Fabulous, Hours

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.160, Penguin

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• If you are good life is good.

  Roald Dahl

  Good Life, Life Is Good, Life Is

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• I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

  Roald Dahl

  Kindness, Simple, Thinking

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• Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Age, Born, Bigger

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Twits”, p.11, Penguin

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• The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

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  Believe, Matter, Beans

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.88, Penguin

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• All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

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  Reading, Views, Done

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

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  Giving, Soul, Fool

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

  Roald Dahl

  Weather, Apples, Pie

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.42, Penguin

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

  Roald Dahl

  Hate, Book, Reading

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• Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

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  Food, Home Cooking, Cereal

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.126, Penguin

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• Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

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  Country, Memories, Children

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• She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

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  Teacher, Reading, School

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Witches”, p.11, Penguin

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• Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

  Roald Dahl

  Night, Eggs, Stolen

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• You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, School, Mean

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• The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

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  Book, People, World

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

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• The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

  Roald Dahl

  Hours, Desks, Force

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.165, Penguin

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