Best Roald Dahl Quotes
- If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important Accomplished
- Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so. Been
- To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. Black
- Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. Book
- But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions. Distraction
- Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. Always Wrote
- I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like. All
- A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. Great
- Eschew all those beastly adjectives... Adjectives
- It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. Choices
- A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Learning
- I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very… Began
- 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. Been
- A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. Absolute
- Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. Any
- Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a… Doctor
- I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that… All
- I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible. Anyone
- My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and… Amputated
- Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. Attack
- The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all… All
- All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and… All
- Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate… All
- All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe. All
- An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. All
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