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A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

A little magic can take you a long way.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

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 Message to 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 deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

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 like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

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.

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Good authour Good books

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

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?

He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another…and another…and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,' the shopkeeper said pleasantly. Charlie nodded, his mouth bulging with chocolate.

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

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.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

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.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.