Roald Dahl Quotes About Writing

• No me importa si un lector odia una de mis historias, con tal de que termine el libro.

  Roald Dahl

  Hate, Book, Reading

• Para mí, el placer de escribir consiste en inventar historias.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Stories, Pleasure

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.233, Penguin

• 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

  Writing, Two, People

• Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspiration, Writing, Perspiration

• You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Writing, Long

• 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 years. Roald Dahl

  Roald Dahl

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Children

• Escribir bien es esencialmente reescribir.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Rewriting, Good Writing

• 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

  Book, Writing, Details

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.10, Penguin

• When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Important, Modesty

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.41, Penguin

• 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

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

• 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

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.99, Penguin

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

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Long Walks, Long

  Roald Dahl (2001). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Writing, Ties

• Cuando me acerco al final de una historia, la primera parte habrá sido releída, modificada y corregida al menos ciento cincuenta veces. Desconfío tanto de la facilidad como de la rapidez. Escribir bien es esencialmente reescribir. Estoy seguro de ello.

  Roald Dahl

  Escritura, Historias, Cincuenta

• Cuando pensé por primera vez en escribir el libro Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate, ¡nunca tuve la intención de que hubiera niños en él!

  Roald Dahl

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

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