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

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

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

Two rights don’t equal a left.

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

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

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.

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.

Don’t gobblefunk around with words.

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.

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.

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

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

I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?

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

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.