All Roald Dahl Quotes
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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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 them more than ever.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.
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Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
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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 they amputated it.
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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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