When you're paid to do a job, it's better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That's one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!