If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
ROALD DAHLI cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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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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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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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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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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