Quotes by Roald Dahl

About Roald Dahl:

Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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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.

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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.

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Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

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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.

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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

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The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly se...

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I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

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The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

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What sort of a book would you like to read next?" she asked.

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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

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Sebagian besar hal seru yang kita lakukan dalam hidup ini membuat kita takut setengah mati. Hal-hal itu tidak akan seru kalau tidak menakutkan -Danny

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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

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Author Bio

  • NameRoald Dahl
  • DescriptionBritish novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
  • BornSeptember 13, 1916
  • DiedNovember 21, 1990
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Aviator; Screenwriter; Novelist; Autobiographer
  • WorksCharlie And The Chocolate Factory; James And The Giant Peach; Fantastic Mr Fox; Matilda; The Witches; The Twits; The BFG; The Gremlins; George's Marvellous Medicine; Danny, The Champion Of The World; The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar And Six More
  • AwardsEdgar Award; Zilveren Griffel