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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

it is like choosing from a menu.

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

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it.

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot!

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?
She'd found it easy, being pretty
To hitch a ride into the city.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met ...

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

that ridiculous machine, That nauseating, foul, unclean, Repulsive television screen!

Her face, I'm afraid, was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy for ever. She

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!
-Harry Wormwood

Aren't I going back to England?"
"No," she said. "I Could never do that. Heaven shall take my soul, but Norway shall keep my bones".

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

Never grow up...always down.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!

It was something black . . . Something tall and black . . . Something very tall and very black and very thin.

*Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. Notice them.
*No book ever ends when it's full of friends.

Puffin is over seventy years old.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays.

And thus the journey ended. But the travelers lived on.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

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

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous ...

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

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

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

You chose books. I chose looks.

Good authour Good books

There was an air of menace about them as they loped slowly across the plain with long lolloping strides, heading for the BFG.

Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
Young ladies from the upper crust.

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!

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

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

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

If she's a lady, I'm a vernicious knid. (Eddie Albert in Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory)

A good plot is like a dream.

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.

We must hurry!' said Mr. Wonka. 'We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

This is Mr. Bucket. This is Mrs. Bucket. Mr. and Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie Bucket.

The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved.

Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables,

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

This Giant had some sort of magic in his legs.

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 nobody to scold him.

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.

The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled. 'I is feeling the teeth sticking into my anklet!

Your daughter's a cheat and a liar, the father said,

What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!

I cannot be helping it if I sometimes is saying things a little squiggly. I

Eschew all those beastly adjectives ...

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

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

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

A newt, she decided, was a useful thing to have around.

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

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

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

What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.

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.

They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!

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.

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

I think you is barking up the wrong dog.

The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper.

The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda

Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.

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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

When he was sure that all his precious dreams had

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

This dream is continuing very nice. It has a very dory-hunky ending.

Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

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

This morning from a halibut.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Badger: The cuss you are.
Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

The air became colder still and everything became paler

An idiotic vitch like you
Must rrroast upon the barbecue!