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 DAHLI’m wondering what to read next.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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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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Two rights don’t equal a left.
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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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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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If you are good life is good.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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I 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.
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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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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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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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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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