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
memories school ties
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
wise clever memories
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.
country memories children
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.
charlie chocolate factory reverse strike time
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
charlie chocolate dreamers factory music
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
forget
Some adults forget what it was like to be a kid,'' Burton says.
british-novelist men practice preach
Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
acute attack british-novelist develop sent stunt sudden
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.
figures literature peter professor publishers safe says
All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option,'' says Peter Hunt, children's literature professor at Cardiff University.
charlie chocolate factory forget happened happily lived man suddenly
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
began british-novelist chocolate companies inventing large possess realise took
I began to realise that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms, and they took their inventing very seriously.
secret
...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.
rights two equal
Two rights don't equal a left.
wish faces impossible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.