Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

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

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.