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
adjectives beastly
Eschew all those beastly adjectives...
punishment choices tasks
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
book writing long-walks
When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.
teacher chocolate study
If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
travel over-you goats
Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
children risk looks
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
hell businessman absolutes
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
ideas plot reason
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
children book writing
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
trying littles way
I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.
mind doubt tragedy
I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
wonderful shows
Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.
children thinking imagination
(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
children delight mirth
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.