Roald Dahl Quotes

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I think there's a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

I actually enjoy the fantasy world quite a bit. You have no boundaries.

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

What year is it in your imagination?

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

You can do anything when it's not real.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Life is serious but art is fun!

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.