And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of fiction. First, there is the side he displays to the public, that of an ordinary person like anyo...
A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY
There are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
. . I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!
Let your love out
You are still yourself in everything except your appearance. You've still got your own mind and your own brain and your own voice, and thank goodness for that.
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!
What I mean and what I say is two different things, the BFG announced rather grandly.
We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
Two wrongs don't make a right.
There’s no earthly way of knowing Which direction they are going! There’s no knowing where they’re rowing, Or which way the river’s flowing! Not a speck of light is showing, So the danger must be grow...
There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood
The maid screamed.The Queen gasped.Sophie waved.
Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.
Oh, books, what books they used to know, Those children living long ago! So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wa...
I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.-Grandpa Joe
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.'Sophie took the book out...
I is not understanding human beans at all,’ the BFG said. ‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’ ‘Right,’ Sophie said...
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.