Roald Dahl Quotes - Page 4

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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!

  Roald Dahl

  Food, Home Cooking, Cereal

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

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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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• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Reading, School

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

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• 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

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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.

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  Teacher, School, Mean

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• Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

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  Wonderful, Shows

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Danny the Champion of the World”, p.194, Penguin

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• Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Perspiration

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• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Two, People

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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

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  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Children

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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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• A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

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  Girl, Husband, Book

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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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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• Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

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  Powerful, Simple, English Grammar

  Roald Dahl (1987). “The Roald Dahl omnibus”, Hippocrene Books

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• I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

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  Clever, Kids, Needs

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• I like enthusiasts of any kind.

  Roald Dahl

  Kind

  Roald Dahl (2010). “Spotty Powder and other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

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  Ideas, New Day, Fiction

  Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.152, Penguin UK

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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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• 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

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

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  Children, Writing, Long

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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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• 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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• 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!

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  Book, Lovely, Inches

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• I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

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  Dream, Inspiration, Dreamer

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• 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.

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  Fun, Dawn, Want

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.180, Penguin

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• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Want, Awful, Stomach

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