We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
ROALD DAHLIf my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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If you are good life is good.
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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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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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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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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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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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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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