Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
A little magic can take you a long way.
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.
I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe.
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.