“ I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours and a fixed salary and very little original thinking to do. The life of a writer is absolute hell co… Roald Dahl
“ Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! Roald Dahl
“ It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and intr… Roald Dahl
“ If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to loo… Roald Dahl
“ What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong! Roald Dahl
“ Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you. Roald Dahl
“ The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack. Roald Dahl
“ Sophie took the book out of his hand. ‘Nicholas Nickleby,’ she read aloud. ‘By Dahl’s Chickens,’ the BFG said. ‘By who?’ Sophie said. Roald Dahl
“ Sometimes, on a very clear night,’ the BFG said, ‘and if I is swiggling my ears in the right direction’ – and here he swivelled his great ears upwards so they were facing the ceiling – ‘if I is swiggl… Roald Dahl
“ Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books. Roald Dahl
“ She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. Roald Dahl
“ My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet. Roald Dahl
“ A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY Roald Dahl
“ Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What… Roald Dahl
