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Roald Dahl Quotes

Roald Dahl quotes about writing

British Novelist, Writer September 13, 1916 – November 25, 1990

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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... Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl quote: "An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life..."
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. Roald Dahl
When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the first view of what you see and you write it down. Then you walk a bit further, maybe up onto the top of a hill, and you see something else. Then you write that and you go on like that, day after day, getting different views of the same landscape really. The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all,... Roald Dahl
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. Roald Dahl
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
Don't worry,' he said. 'So long as the facts are there, I can write the story. But please,' he added, 'let me have plenty of detail. That's what counts in our business, tiny little details, like you had a broken shoelace on your left shoe, or a fly settled on the rim of your glasses at lunch, or the man you were talking to had a broken front tooth... Roald Dahl
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. Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl quote: "When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk"
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl quote: "When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful...."
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl quote: "For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories."
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories. Roald Dahl

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