Roald Dahl Quotes

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

Reading gave me hope.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

Books are like my one and only joy.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this world, which I needed.

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.