Roald Dahl

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#coal #gold

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#day #demands #each #fear #fiction

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#i #imposing #into #mansion #miles

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#after #alone #along #four #green

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. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#arm #broke #came #elbow #father

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

— Roald Dahl

#anyone #boy #ever #i #i am

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#ate #because #dangerous #drops #eating

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#men #nonsense #now #now and then #then

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#doubt #endure #entirely #expected #face

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

— Roald Dahl

#anywhere #fabulous #few #go #hours