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Quotes About Creativity

I usually carried with me six loaded plates, which allowed me only six exposures, so that clicking the shutter even once was a serious business that had to be carefully thought out beforehand.
~ Roald Dahl
But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It's right here. You've just finished reading it.
~ Roald Dahl
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~ Roald Dahl
Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
~ Roald Dahl
Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.
~ Roald Dahl
What sort of a book would you like to read next? she asked.
~ Roald Dahl
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 HAS A PET BEE THAT MAKES ROCK AND ROLL MUSIK WHEN IT FLIES.
~ Roald Dahl
You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that - Willy Wonka
~ Roald Dahl
The trouble is, I'm writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.
~ Roald Dahl
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
Un libro, piensas, es una cajita milagrosa: puedes meterlo en el bolsillo de tu abrigo y en él caben, sin embargo, muchas más cosas de las que existen en el mundo.
~ Roald Dahl
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD! IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD! IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND! IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND! HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE! HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE! HE CANNOT THINK—HE ONLY SEES!
~ Roald Dahl
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "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
How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!
~ Roald Dahl
That's why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They're for new countries. You're meant to fill them in yourself.
~ Roald Dahl
KIRASUKU MALIBUKU WEEBEE WIZE UN YUBEE KUKU! ¡ALIPENDA KAKAMENDA PANTZ FORLDUN IFNO SUSPENDA! ¡FUNIKIKA KANDERIKA WEEBEE STRONGA YUBEE WEEKA! ¡POPOKOTA BORUMOKA VERI RISKI YU PROVOKA! ¡KATIKATI MOONS UN STARS FANFANISHA VENUS MARTE! El
~ Roald Dahl
I cannot be helping it if I sometimes is saying things a little squiggly. I
~ Roald Dahl
the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.
~ Roald Dahl
Crocodile tongues!" he cried. "One thousand long slimy crocodile tongues boiled up in the skull of a dead witch for twenty days and nights with the eyeballs of a lizard! Add the fingers of a young monkey, the gizzard of a pig, the beak of a green parrot, the juice of a porcupine, and three spoonfuls of sugar. Stew for another week, and then let the moon do the rest!
~ Roald Dahl
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
~ Roald Dahl
had been used for stirring paint. George picked it up and started to stir his marvelous concoction. The mixture was as thick as cream
~ Roald Dahl
The Oompa-Loompas
~ Roald Dahl
I have therefore prepared personally vith my own hands a limited qvantity of Delayed Action Mouse-Maker vhich I vill distrrribute to the ancient vuns before you leave the hotel.
~ Roald Dahl