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.

A little magic can take you a long way.

Good authour Good books

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

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

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

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.