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

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

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.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.