A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. Roald Dahl Read Quote
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can’t swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe. Roald Dahl Read Quote
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do. Roald Dahl Read Quote
The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it’s a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he’s broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it’s not a joke anymore. Roald Dahl Read Quote
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. Roald Dahl Read Quote
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. Roald Dahl Read Quote