If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
ROALD DAHLGrown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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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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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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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 bookshelf on the wall.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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