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
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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
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Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.
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Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Some adults forget what it was like to be a kid,'' Burton says.
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Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
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I devised a stunt for getting myself sent back home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop an attack of acute appendicitis.
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All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option,'' says Peter Hunt, children's literature professor at Cardiff University.
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And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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I began to realise that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms, and they took their inventing very seriously.
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...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.