Roald Dahl

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

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

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

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.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

Life is more fun if you play games.

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.

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.