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My darling,' she said at last...

My darling,' she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?' 'I don't mind at all' I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

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You seemed so far away,' Miss...

You seemed so far away,' Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. 'Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings,' Matilda said. 'It was wonderful.

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The more risks you allow your ...

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

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If a person has ugly thoughts,...

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

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There are many other little re...

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.

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Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird ...

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

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My dear young fellow,' the Old...

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

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The prime function of the chil...

The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl

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So Matilda's strong young mind...

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

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Unless you have been to boardi...

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

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When you grow up and have chil...

When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!

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Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. ...

Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

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I understand what you're sayin...

I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

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Of course not. You can't have ...

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

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Writing is mainly perspiration...

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

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Grown ups are complicated crea...

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

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I am totally convinced that mo...

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

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The reason I collect good idea...

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

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When I first thought about wri...

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

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Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll ne...

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

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