Children Quote by Roald Dahl Download Open image “You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.” — Roald Dahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Humor Humour Long Writing
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as… — Morris Gleitzman 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
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
