Top 36 Quotes by Roald Dahl

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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.

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.

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

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

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.

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

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.

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