Roald Dahl

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.

Roald Dahl

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Roald Dahl

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

Roald Dahl

And thus the journey ended. But the travelers lived on.

Roald Dahl

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

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Roald Dahl

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Roald Dahl

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

Roald Dahl

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

Roald Dahl

I asked my mum, who’s a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

Roald Dahl