I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans. Roald Dahl More Quotes by Roald Dahl More Quotes From Roald Dahl 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 wheels littles trying The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Roald Dahl secret-places inspiring book No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends. Roald Dahl ends book Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up. Roald Dahl giving-up pain war 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 desks hours force You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Roald Dahl ifs If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. Roald Dahl reading ifs book The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. Roald Dahl reading book people It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you. Roald Dahl love long looks The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do. Roald Dahl very-good secret said My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet. Roald Dahl trying-new-things green world Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. Roald Dahl magic-in-the-world secret-places eye 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. Roald Dahl fool soul giving A little magic can take you a long way. Roald Dahl magic littles long 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 reading teacher school 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 growing-up children thinking I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. Roald Dahl reading teaching book Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. Roald Dahl left important said ...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so. Roald Dahl wall girl children There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be. Roald Dahl serious imagination wish
