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“Perhaps it is only someone who has experienced first-hand what family can and should mean who can be so ruthless when they write about those who fall short of producing the ideal for their offspring.”

Writing Family Childhood Roald Dahl

Book:Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.

Source: Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.

“A good children's book teaches the uses of words, the joy of playing with language. Above all, it helps children learn not to be frightened of books. Once they get through a book and enjoy it, they realize that books are something they can cope with. If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.”

Children Reading Books Critics Chocolate Roald Dahl Literary Merit Willy Wonka

Book:Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.

Source: Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.

“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.”

Books Matilda Roald Dahl Book Nerds

Book:Matilda

Source: Matilda

“...someone asking for the Roald Dahls - the ones before they had made the giant average-size, and Augustus Gloop suffering from a glandular disorder...”

Reading Books Censorship Roald Dahl

Book:Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

Source: Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.”

Religion Childhood Innocence Autobiography Short Stories Boarding School Roald Dahl

Book:Innocence

Source: Innocence

“Don`t you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.”

Love Childhood Poet Writer Roald Dahl

Author:Vaishnavi Hajari

“But Goldilocks, like many freaks, Does not appreciate antiques.”

Antiques Goldilocks Roald Dahl Revolting Rhymes

Book:Revolting Rhymes

Source: Revolting Rhymes

“I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure. Viaggiava su antichi velieri con Joseph Conrad. Andava in Africa con Ernest Hemingway e in India con Kipling. Girava il mondo restando seduta nella sua stanza, in un villaggio inglese.”

Libri Leggere Hemingway Kipling Matilda Conrad Roald Dahl Matilde

Book:Matilda

Source: Matilda

“Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.”

Dickens Leggere Matilda Roald Dahl Matilde Grandi Speranze

Book:Matilda

Source: Matilda

“... it's impossible to write the whole, true story of anything. We always leave things out. We quite often put things in. Sometimes, no matter how hard we try not to, we change things. We tell the story in our own way, which might not be the same way someone else would tell it.”

Writing Biographies Roald Dahl

Book:Fantastic Mr. Dahl

Source: Fantastic Mr. Dahl

“Pero a mí me pareció que había algo raro en su forma de hablar y en su aburrimiento: una sombra malévola en su ceño, y en su actitud una determinación que me produjo cierto desasosiego al mirarle,”

Ficción Roald Dahl Historia Corta La Cata Roald Dahl Español

Book:La cata

Source: La cata