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.

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

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

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

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 shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.