Books Quote by Roald Dahl Download Open image ““The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda”” — Roald Dahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
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… — 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
“Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books. — 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 into the… — 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 old ones.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt; it seemed to be a world where people behaved the best to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is clear to me that Daisy can never be left alone. She is too trusting and too willing to try out new things… — Jessica Clare Copy Share Image
“The words of Jane Eyre skipped through my mind. How deceiving they were. No wonder the council had outlawed books. Stories enabled you to… — Tiffany Truitt Copy Share Image
“Very well, but I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that… — Catherynne M. Valente 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
