Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife. Roald Dahl Read Quote
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. Roald Dahl Read Quote
Dexter’ is a very well-oiled machine; it’s just a great show and great to be part of. Roald Dahl Read Quote
When you’re writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children’s books. Roald Dahl Read Quote
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. Roald Dahl Read Quote
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. Roald Dahl Read Quote
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. Roald Dahl Read Quote
I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact. Roald Dahl Read Quote
