Amazing people Quote by Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

“She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order…

— Brian Morton

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“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

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us…

— Laurie Lee

“but travel, to new places where she could swim and write, while escaping the ensnaring kitchen of life, was becoming the one prospect that…

— Caroline Moorehead

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

“Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took…

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding…

— Paul Theroux

“Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for…

— Nicolas Bouvier

“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The…

— Lisa Cach