The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.
I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe
Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.
Obscurity is never a virtue.
If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.
I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.
Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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