Books Quotes by Roald Dahl

“You chose books. I chose looks.”

— Roald Dahl

I'm wondering what to read next.

— Roald Dahl

Good authour Good books

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

“The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda”

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A…

— Roald Dahl

“When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,…

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

— Roald Dahl

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,…

— Roald Dahl

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

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

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,…

— Roald Dahl

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself…

— Roald Dahl

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please…

— Roald Dahl

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

“We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please…

— Roald Dahl

“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

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

“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

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

“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the…

— Roald Dahl

“When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you…

— Roald Dahl

“The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set…

— Roald Dahl

“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

“We don't hold with book-reading," Mr. Wormwood said. "You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.”

— Roald Dahl

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. /…

— Roald Dahl

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

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable…

— Roald Dahl

“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

“A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please…

— Roald Dahl

“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had…

— Roald Dahl