Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahlwas a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide...
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth13 September 1916
CityCardiff, Wales
years sage littles
Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
book teaching reading
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.
candy dandy
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
sweet joy chocolate
He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another…and another…and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,' the shopkeeper said pleasantly. Charlie nodded, his mouth bulging with chocolate.
book differences looks
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
father long said
Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...
pigs house lucky
The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.
cities white snow
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.
book television wormwood
There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood
alive
I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.
needs daze want
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
love impossible distraction
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.
imagination compare pure
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
country heart tanks
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.