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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British Novelist
Born: Sep 13, 1916
Died: Nov 23, 1990
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do. Roald Dahl
Life Simple Thinking Follow Simple Life Could Had Hours How Salary Began Very Fixed Little Realize Regular Original Routine
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 see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore. Roald Dahl
Broken You Laughter Joke Skin Chap Backside Slip Laughing Fine See Fine Line He Roar Between Roaring Disaster Crying Because Doing Line His Falls Very Banana Leg Quickly Stop Anymore Suddenly Slap Street
Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God? Roald Dahl
God Men Practice Preach One Thing Another Did Thing
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. Roald Dahl
Day Fear Writer Never He Demands New Come Ideas New Day Sure New Ideas Up Going Fiction Whether Them Each Lives
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. Roald Dahl
Freedom Fool Become Only Absolute Absolute Freedom Writer His Person Compensation
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. Roald Dahl
Life Book Own Details Boring About Writes Sort His Person Autobiography Full
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. Roald Dahl
Black Gold Coal
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible. Roald Dahl
Myself Old Possible Only Boy Am Years Anyone Little Ever
'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of. Roald Dahl
Great Machine Part Great Show Dexter Very Just Show
I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers. Roald Dahl
Myself Down Soldiers Out Some Got German Brave Brave Soldiers Getting Flames Crashing Burst Crawling Planes Shot Rescued
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. Roald Dahl
Work Own Writer He Nobody Hours Force Make Him Himself Go Scold His Desk
I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact. Roald Dahl
Good You Ugly Think Way Extremely Characters Bad Find Exaggerate Impact Only Cruel Qualities Make Makes Nasty Very Person Children Interesting Them Really Fun
All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. Roald Dahl
Life Sometimes School Other Wound Fact Through Allowed School Life Masters Boy Were Very Quite Senior Literally Appalled
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. Roald Dahl
Pilot Fighter Mediterranean Flying Syria Libya Hurricanes Iraq Western Greece Egypt Flew Fighter Pilot Desert Round
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. Roald Dahl
Father Broke Small He Small Town Arm Town Came His Norwegian Elbow Who Near Amputated Oslo
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort. Roald Dahl
Great Channel Our Guide Draw Able Over House Comfort Always Bed Line Wales Imaginary Bristol
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. Roald Dahl
People Writing Drained Those Has-Been Totally Writer He Hours Leaves Been Different Fiction Place Different People Different Place Two
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. Roald Dahl
Dark Down Back Seven Minutes Hut Within Tight Go Six Being Eight Where Again Little Warm

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