Roald Dahl Quotes

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.

What I like doing most is making children laugh.

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I always love writing about children.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

You often hear this about directors, how it's like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box of toys that a kid could possibly have. The best directors look like a kid having more fun than you're supposed to have.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

It's a wonderful thing to write for children.

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.