Some more quotes by Roald Dahl

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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.

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

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.

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 there is nobody to scold him.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.