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

Quote by Roald Dahl

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Life is more fun if you play games.

Life is more fun if you play games.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he...

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he...

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

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

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

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

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you...

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you...

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible...

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible...

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours...

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours...

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior...

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior...

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke...

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke...

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and...

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and...

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a...

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a...

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and...

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and...

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while...

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while...

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't...

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't...

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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

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

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

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

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine...

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine...

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the...

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the...