Alice

“you should be able to make a scene come alive in the reader’s mind. Not everybody has this ability. It is a gift, and you either have it or you don’t.”
― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

“The beatings at Repton were more fierce and more frequent than anything I had yet experienced. And do not think for one moment that the future Archbishop of Canterbury objected to these squalid exercises. He rolled up his sleeves and joined in with gusto. His were the bad ones, the really terrifying occasions. Some of the beatings administered by this man of God, this future Head of the Church of England, were very brutal. To my certain knowledge he once had to produce a basin of water, a sponge and a towel so that the victim could wash the blood away afterwards. No joke, that. Shades of the Spanish Inquisition.”
― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

“The very rich are enormously resentful of bad weather. It is the one discomfort that their money cannot do anything about.”
― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

“Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.”
― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More