If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. Roald Dahl Read Quote
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like. Roald Dahl Read Quote
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. Roald Dahl Read Quote
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. Roald Dahl Read Quote
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. Roald Dahl Read Quote
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. Roald Dahl Read Quote
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales. Roald Dahl Read Quote
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all. Roald Dahl Read Quote
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. Roald Dahl Read Quote
I go down to my little hut, where it’s tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again. Roald Dahl Read Quote
