Life is more fun if you play games.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

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

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.