Roald Dahl

No one who is good can ever be ugly.

Roald Dahl

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

Roald Dahl

Obscurity is never a virtue.

Roald Dahl

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

Roald Dahl

The very rich are enormously resentful of bad weather. It is the one discomfort that their money cannot do anything about.

Roald Dahl

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.

Roald Dahl

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Roald Dahl

There’s someone over there needs a helping hand and it’s our job to give it.

Roald Dahl

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

Roald Dahl