A little magic can take you a long way.

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

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

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

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.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.

Two rights don't equal a left.

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

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

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

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.

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