Roald Dahl

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.

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.

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.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.