You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHLYou chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHLBut there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
ROALD DAHLThe greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
ROALD DAHLI began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
ROALD DAHLA life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
ROALD DAHLDo you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
ROALD DAHLUnless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLNo book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
ROALD DAHLThe prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
ROALD DAHLIt is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLWatch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
ROALD DAHLFor me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
ROALD DAHLI’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
ROALD DAHLThe snozberries taste like snozberries!
ROALD DAHLThough my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHLI am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
ROALD DAHL