Roald Dahl

When you're writing, you're creating a world, and you're the master of it.

I never saw a child who didn't want to be a grown-up.

I don't care if you're a king or a queen or a pope or a president. You're still going to be a person.

The secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I'm not a writer, I'm a storyteller.

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

I've never met a person who didn't have a good story to tell.

You can write about anything you want, as long as you make it interesting.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

The deeper you go, the crazier it gets.

I love the smell of books, and the feel of them. I love the texture of the paper, the way the pages crinkle, and the sound they make when you turn them.

I think a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that children are simple creatures. They're not. They're very complex.

I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in happy middles.

There are some things that we can't do anything about, and there are some things that we can.

I think it's very important to have a sense of humor about life.

I write for children because I think children are more interesting than adults.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

I don't think there's any such thing as a bad child. Just bad parents.

I think reading is a wonderful thing. It's a way to escape from the real world and go into a world of your own.

I'm not a very good listener.