Roald Dahl Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

  Roald Dahl

  Reading, Views, Done

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

• 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

• 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

• 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, 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.

• I'm wondering what to read next.

  Roald Dahl

  Reading, Next, Wonder

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Esio Trot”, p.84, Penguin

• She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Reading, School

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Witches”, p.11, Penguin

• 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

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Reading, Wonderful

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

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