Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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.
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.
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.
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
If you are good, life is good.
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
It is most unlikely. But – here comes the big “but” – not impossible.
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
I’m wondering what to read next.
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
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.
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.