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
trying littles way
I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.
hell businessman absolutes
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
children age remember
I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.
children risk looks
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
children swim young
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
reading book wonderful
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
adjectives beastly
Eschew all those beastly adjectives...
punishment choices tasks
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
teacher chocolate study
If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
travel over-you goats
Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
hours force desks
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
imagination compare pure
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
egypt iraq flying
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
beautiful falling-in-love children
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl