“No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.”

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

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

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Life is more fun if you play games.

I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

A little magic can take you a long way.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.

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

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.