510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

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.

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.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

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.

Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants

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.