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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Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...
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We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
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The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.
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Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.
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Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
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I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
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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.