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Book Quotes by Roald Dahl
- I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
- The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
- If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
- No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
- If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important
- Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.
- Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
- An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
- All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever…
- So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on…
- 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…
- I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
- There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood
- A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!
- 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…
- So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world…
- The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph…
- The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
- Good authour Good books
- When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless…
- A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss…
- I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to…
- You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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