“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
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! — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
