But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.” - Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood “All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. “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, Boy: Tales of Childhood “It is almost worth going away because it’s so lovely coming back.” - Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.” - Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood His only compensation is absolute freedom. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. “The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. “An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.” - Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood Truth is more important than modesty.” - Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood “When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. “We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.” - Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood Here are 10 of the best quotes from Boy: Tales of Childhood. Do not try to understand them.” - Roald Dahl, The BFG How to read it: Purchase The BFG on Amazon and add it on Goodreads Boy: Tales of Childhood Quotes “Let your love out.” - Roald Dahl, The BFG “‘The matter with human beans,’ the BFG went on, ‘is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.'” - Roald Dahl, The BFG Quite often I is left instead of right.'” - Roald Dahl, The BFG

“‘Meanings is not important,’ said the BFG. The human bean is not a vegetable.'” - Roald Dahl, The BFG ‘We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. ‘You is trying to change the subject,’ the Giant said sternly. “‘Do you like vegetables?’ Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. “‘Words,’ he said, ‘is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.’ - Roald Dahl, The BFG “‘What I mean and what I say is two different things,’ the BFG announced rather grandly.” - Roald Dahl, The BFG “The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.” - Roald Dahl, The BFG “Two rights don’t equal a left.” - Roald Dahl, The BFG

“Don’t gobblefunk around with words.” - Roald Dahl, The BFG Here are 10 of the best quotes from The BFG:

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