Roald Dahl Book Quotations

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

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 Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

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 write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

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.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Good authour Good books

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

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 you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

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.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important

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.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

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 Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

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!

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 like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

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 the wall.