Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

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.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

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