"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
— Judy Blume

"[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."
— Judy Blume

"The truth will make you odd."
— Judy Blume

"The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either."
— Judy Blume

"Beleive in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
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— Judy Blume

""you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain""
— Judy Blume

"Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn."
— Judy Blume (Summer Sisters)

"Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands"
— Judy Blume (Forever)

"Eat it or wear it"
— Judy Blume

"what up"
— Judy Blume (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret)

"I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas..."
— Judy Blume (Forever)

"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."
— Roald Dahl

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall."
— Roald Dahl

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you."
— Roald Dahl (The Witches)

"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

"I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it."
— Roald Dahl (Matilda)

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."
— Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

"The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves."
— Roald Dahl (The BFG)

"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 (The Witches)

"Two rights don't equal a left."
— Roald Dahl (The BFG)

"We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine."
— Roald Dahl (Boy: Tales of Childhood)

"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."
— Roald Dahl

"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
— Roald Dahl

"Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after."
— Roald Dahl

"Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever."
— Roald Dahl (The Twits)

""Everything in this room is eatable, even I'm eatable! But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, which is frowned upon in most societies.""
— Roald Dahl

"All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me."
— Roald Dahl (The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me)

"Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food.
"You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable."
— Roald Dahl (The BFG)

"It wasn't raindrops at all. It was a great solid mass of water that might have been a lake or a whole ocean dropping out of the sky on top of them, and down it came, down and down and down, crashing first onto the seagulls and then onto the peach itself, while the poor travelers shrieked with fear and groped around frantically for something to catch hold of- the peach stem, the silk strings, anything they could find- and all the time the water came pouring and roaring down upon them, bouncing and smashing and sloshing and slashing and swashing and swirling and surging and whirling and gurgling and gushing and rushing and rushing, and it was like being pinned down underneath the biggest waterfall in the world and not being able to get out."
— Roald Dahl

"I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books."
— Roald Dahl (Matilda)

"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"
— Roald Dahl

"I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever."
— Roald Dahl

"You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of. "
— Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
— Roald Dahl

"A little magic can take you a long way."
— Roald Dahl- James and the Giant Peach (James and the Giant Peach)