A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“We don't hold with book-reading," Mr. Wormwood said. "You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said. ‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. — Roald Dahl Copy Share
When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates. — Roald Dahl Copy Share
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!” — Roald Dahl Copy Share
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