Top 36 Quotes by Roald Dahl

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

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.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

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.

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.

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.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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.

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.