Some Quotes by Roald Dahl

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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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.

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 through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

Everyone has some sort of a boat in Norway. NObody sits around in front of the hotel. Nor does anyone sit on the beach.

Game-playing at school is always fun if you happen to be good at it, and it is hell if you are not. I was one of the lucky ones.

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.