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
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.
love-you long mind
My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
mind hypnotic spells
... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
kindness simple mind
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
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.