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Roald Dahl Quotes about Reading

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

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

Roald Dahl
Book, Reading, Ifs

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 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

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.

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

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

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

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'm wondering what to read next.

Roald Dahl
Reading, Next, Wonder
Roald Dahl (2009). “Esio Trot”, p.84, 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

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