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
teacher reading school
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
dark eight littles
I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.
taste
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
giants eating
Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants
fun want dawn
It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.
rainbow different six
Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
children book writing
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
country dream said
We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
girl believe eye
I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.
thinking feel-good feels
I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.
writing important modesty
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
writing long-walks long
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
believe thinking firsts
Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
fighting might monsters
careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.