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 DAHLObscurity is never a virtue.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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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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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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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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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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Life is more fun if you play games.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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