Quote

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

Roald Dahl

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
Author
Autobiographer
Fighter Pilot
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Llandaf
Wing Commander Roald Dahl
Walk
Walks
Rather
Writing
Going
Long
Like

More quotes by Roald Dahl

Image
Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
Roald Dahl
Image
...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
Roald Dahl
Image
A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.
Roald Dahl
Image
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
Roald Dahl
Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
Roald Dahl
Image
Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.
Roald Dahl
Image
Two rights don't equal a left.
Roald Dahl
Image
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Roald Dahl
Image
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
Image
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
Roald Dahl
Image
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
Roald Dahl
Image
Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.
Roald Dahl
Image
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
Roald Dahl
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 lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
Roald Dahl
Image
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Roald Dahl
Image
You is getting nosier than a parker.
Roald Dahl
Image
I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe
Roald Dahl
Image
I like enthusiasts of any kind.
Roald Dahl
Image
I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
Roald Dahl
Image
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
Roald Dahl