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
girl husband book
A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.
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.
book differences looks
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
book television wormwood
There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood
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.
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!
children book has-beens
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.
book reading ifs
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
reading book wonderful
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
book good-book
Good authour Good books
book writing details
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
book pages looks
All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.
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.
book teaching reading
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.