I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.
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...
Here it is,' Nigel said.Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?
Dreams is full of mystery and magic . . . . Do not try to understand them.
Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to th...
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face...
A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DES...
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobod...
When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.
There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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...
On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.'Can you hear him, Danny?''Yes,' I said,'That is a bullfrog calling to...
Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the wo...
Matilda said, Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...
Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?
If you are good life is good.