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 DAHLSomewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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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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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 good life is good.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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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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Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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