Roald Dahl Quotes

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Roald Dahl

Profession : Novelist

Birth : September 13, 1916

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

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

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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

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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.

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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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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.

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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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