Roald Dahl

(10 votes)   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.

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(9 votes)   A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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(8 votes)   Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

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(8 votes)   Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

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(4 votes)   I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

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(3 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

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(9 votes)   Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

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(8 votes)   Game-playing at school is always fun if you happen to be good at it, and it is hell if you are not. I was one of the lucky ones.

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(8 votes)   I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

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

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(7 votes)   I began to realise that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms, and they took their inventing very seriously.

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(7 votes)   I devised a stunt for getting myself sent back home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop an attack of acute appendicitis.

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(6 votes)   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.

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

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