Roald Dahl Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.”

“Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”

“Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.”

“Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”

“The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.”

“Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?”

“All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.”