Quotes from Roald Dahl

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

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

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

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.

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

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.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

Life is more fun if you play games.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.