I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

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