You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I don’t want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won’t listen to me; he won’t learn.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Its a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid the camera got smashed against the side of the Space Hotel, Mr. President,” Shuckworth replied. The President said a very… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for… — 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
I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I is a dreamblowing giant,” the BFG said. “(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms… — 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
...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY” — 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
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the… — 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
“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
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it's impossible to make… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
