A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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• Roald Dahl:

  A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether

• Roald Dahl:

  All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is diffi

• Roald Dahl:

  All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed qui

• Roald Dahl:

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

• Roald Dahl:

  Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

• Roald Dahl:

  I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possibl

• Roald Dahl:

  I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours

• Roald Dahl:

  I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my

• Roald Dahl:

  I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawli

• Roald Dahl:

  I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert