Roald Dahl Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

• The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

  Roald Dahl

  Reading, Book, People

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Beauty, Uplifting, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.79, Penguin

• The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspiring, Book, Secret Places

  Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Ends

  Roald Dahl (2009). “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, p.77, Penguin

• I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

  Roald Dahl

  Hate, Book, Reading

• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Strong, Book, Sea

  "Matilda". Book by Roald Dahl, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 1988.

• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

  Roald Dahl

  Motivational, Wall, Book

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Reading, Ifs

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

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at 50" by Lucy Mangan, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.

• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Positive Attitude, Ugly

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.150, Penguin

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, People, World

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

• The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl

  Roald Dahl

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Children

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

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Next

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Matilda”, p.13, Penguin

• 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

  Book, Lovely, Inches

• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Looks, Pages

  Roald Dahl (1994). “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, Puffin HC

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Writing, Details

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.10, Penguin

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Television, 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Writing

• A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Husband, Book

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

• I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.99, Penguin

• Good authour Good books

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Good Book

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Differences, Looks

• Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, My Own

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