There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up fo...
A whizzpopper! cried the BFG, beaming at her. Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little wh...
I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure. Viaggiava su antichi velieri con Joseph Conrad. Andava in Africa con Ernest Hemi...
With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little...
This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering ro...
You seemed so far away, Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings, Matilda said. It was wonderful.
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
You chose books. I chose looks.
We may see a Creature with forty-nine headsWho lives in the desolate snow,And whenever he catches a cold (which he dreads)He has forty-nine noses to blow.'We may see the venomous Pink-Spotted ScrunchW...
You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones. Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and rea...
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Well not exactly, the father said.Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does...
A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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.
We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.
Life is more fun if you play games.