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
writing rewriting good-writing
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
writing stories fifty
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
children writing long
You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
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!
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.
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.
writing important modesty
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
writing long-walks long
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
writing two people
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
inspiration writing perspiration
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
writing stories pleasure
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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