It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.