Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense. Roald Dahl More Quotes by Roald Dahl More Quotes From Roald Dahl We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. Roald Dahl sarcastic inspirational funny 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 falling-in-love beautiful children You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour. Roald Dahl writing long children Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents. Roald Dahl faults parent children Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast. Roald Dahl chasing-me moving thinking I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow. Roald Dahl girl eye believe Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping. Roald Dahl real country people 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 born bigger age I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. Roald Dahl hate reading book I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it. Roald Dahl bigs can-do What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this! Roald Dahl fellows fortunate lovely In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit. Roald Dahl mother teacher children My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. Roald Dahl elbows father hands To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. Roald Dahl coal black gold Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. Roald Dahl perfect diaries father I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again. Roald Dahl eight dark littles 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. Roald Dahl ties writing book 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 writing book children ... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell. Roald Dahl spells listeners mind Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well. Roald Dahl laughing long children
