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.
ROALD DAHLIf you are good life is good.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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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.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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.
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