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 DAHLA little magic can take you a long way.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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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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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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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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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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