Roald Dahl - A person is a fool to become a writer. His...

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Biography

Author Profession: Novelist

Nationality: British

Born: September 13, 1916

Died: November 23, 1990

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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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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.

Life Simple Thinking Simple Life

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

Men Nonsense Now Now And Then Little

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

You Broken Laughter Street

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.

Me Memory School Sitting

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.

You Children Place Find

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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

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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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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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Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

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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.

You Today Face Doctor

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