The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
ROALD DAHLAll the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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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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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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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.
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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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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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