Roald Dahl stories are packed with brilliantly booky quotes, so we’ve rounded up our very favourites all in one place. If you’re celebrating World Book Day or Read Across America, these quotes are sure to inspire the bookworm in you.

‘Don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words wash around you, like music.’ - Matilda

These wise words from Mrs Phelps (the helpful librarian) truly capture the spirit of sharing stories; it doesn't matter if you can't understand every single word, as long as you're enjoying the journey.

‘I is reading it hundreds of times,’ the BFG said. ‘And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.’ - The BFG

Like the BFG we should all love learning new words, even if they are made up! For example, 'scrumdiddlyumptious': an adjective used to describe a food that is utterly delicious... or 'repulsant': something disgusting and vile - like slimy snozzcumbers!

‘So many of them were always begging him to tell and tell again the story of his adventures on the peach, he thought it would be nice if one day he sat down and wrote it as a book. So he did.’ - James and the Giant Peach We're with James' friends on this one - we want to hear our favourite story again and again and again. (And maybe just once more after that.)

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

Where might you go and who might you meet today, dear reader?

“May I tell you a story?” - Matilda

The answer to this should always be "yes, Miss Honey!"

‘“All right,” he said. “What sort of story shall we have tonight?”’ - Danny the Champion of the World

An all-important follow up to Miss Honey's question above. Do you think, perhaps, you might like to hear an adventure involving pheasants today...?

‘Her witch stories, unlike most of the others, were not imaginary tales.’ - The Witches

Like Grandma's tales about witches, sometimes the best stories are based on things that are absolutely, categorically real.

‘All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.’ - Matilda

In the pages of a good book you might see through the eyes of a witch-hunting mouse-boy, or a ladderless window cleaning giraffe, or even an incredible inventor of chocolate treats.

‘No book ever ends when its full of your friends.’ - The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Whether your favourite friends are a strange trio of window washers or any of the other friendly faces from Roald Dahl’s stories, you can always visit them by simply opening a book.