...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

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.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.