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There are 52 quotes for the author Roald Dahl

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

The sweet-shop in Llandaff in the year 1923 was the very centre of our lives. TO us, it was what a bar is to a drunk. Without it, there would have been little to live for.

GObstoppers, costing a penny each, were enormous, hard, round balls the size of small tomatoes. One Gobstopper would provide about an hour's worth of nonstop sucking.

The summer holidays! The magic words! The mere mention of them used to send shivers of joy rippling over my skin.

Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

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.

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.

When I was about 9, my ancient half-sister got engaged. The man of her choice was an English doctor. Romance was floating in the air like moondust.

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.

A Liquorice Bootlace is not round. It's like a flat tape about half an inch wide. You buy it rolled up in a coil.

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.

The rules of Prep were simple but strict. You were forbidden to look up from your work, and you were forbidden to talk.

I learned to speak Swahili and to shake the scorpions out of my mosquito boots in the mornings. I learned what it was like to get malaria and to run a temperature of 105 degrees for three days.

I was 20 years old. I was off to East Africa, where I would walk about in khaki shorts every day and wear a topi on my head.

It was always a great surprise to me that I was good at games. One of these was called fives, and the other was squash-racquets.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

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.

In 1920, with no penicillin or other magical antibiotic cures, pneumonia in particular was a very dangerous illness indeed.

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