There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

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

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.