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.
ROALD DAHLThe books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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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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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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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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The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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