Roald Dahl: Quotes about books

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked.
‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.”

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

“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.”