Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, “I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy.”
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized – to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.
Everything in this book may be wrong. – The Savior’s Manual.
Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.
The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read.
Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.
Everybody wants confidence but you don’t find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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.
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.