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 am suspicious of both facility and speed.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk