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

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

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.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.