Diaries Quote by Roald Dahl Download Open image “Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.” — Roald Dahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diaries Father Parenting Perfect
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
“This book was made possible by the letter “ø.” Also the letter “æ.” The first time I saw them, I fell in love and… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation. — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over… — Christopher Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators. — Ishaan Khatter Copy Share Image
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland. — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh! Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes!… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
My life always came first. When I got nominated for Diary of a Mad Housewife, I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.'… — Carrie Snodgress Copy Share Image
'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I… — Tony Benn Copy Share
I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the… — James Franco Copy Share Image
After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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