If you Have Good Thoughts. Roald Dahl Twits Sunbeams Quote Print, Unframed Picture Poster

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By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.” —Roald Dahl Parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.”– Matilda

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous anymore.”– Boy: Tales of Childhood Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all if it hasn’t been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn’t poached eggs unless it’s been stolen in the dead of the night.”– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Inspirational Roald Dahl Quotes

I don’t want a grown-up person at all. A grownup won’t listen to me; he won’t learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child. I want a good sensible loving child, one to whom I can tell all my most precious candy-making secrets-while I am still alive.”– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!’― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Please note that the image colours displayed on your monitor may differ slightly from the actual colours of the print. I’m afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.” – Matilda If I had my way, I would remove January from the calender altogether and have an extra July instead.” – Roald Dahl

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”― Roald Dahl, Matilda So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”– Matilda 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 And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

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Meanings is not important,” said the BFG. “I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.” – The BFG If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”– Roald Dahl Quotes About Learning It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”– Matilda My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light.”– Boy: Tales of Childhood 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.” – Roald Dahl

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”– My Uncle OswaldTwo 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 I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”– Matilda You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.’ – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.”– Roald Dahl When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants—and DESERVES—is a parent who is SPARKY!”– Roald Dahl