Some Truly Magnificent Quotes

There are many really superb writers and authors out there who change the way we think with some of their words, just a small sentence of symbols and letters can mean something extraordinary, we call these, as you probably know, 'quotes'. they are one of my favourite forms of inspiration, so I thought we should take a look at a few of them. I've been looking forward to this!

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
- Madeleine L'Engle

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R Tolkien

“There is nothing like looking if you want to find something.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Roald Dahl

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
- Henry Green

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
- Muriel Rukeyser

“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
- George R.R. Martin

“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”
- Tom Bissell

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
- Stephen King

I think that wraps it up for now, anyway, according to Herb Caen "A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.", Seeya Folks 😉.

My Top 6 Roald Dahl Books.

Howdy!
Sorry, I haven't posted in a while, I've been a bit busy, but I thought I should do a little Top 6 because I've been doing Roald Dahl reviews I'm going to do MY (emphasizing on 'My') Top 6 Roald Dahl Books, this completely depends on opinions but this is MY opinion, soon I'll put out all these books into a poll and YOU can choose your top 6. Anyway, Here goes!

No. 6 Esio Trot


This is a brilliantly illuminating book, it tells a story about a very shy man who loves a very lovely woman and they are brought together by a tortoise. This book is a short one, it only has around 60 pages but it tells a lot in those short pages. It has another of Roald Dahls Books of Brilliant Brilliance as I like to call it, as do most of the books on this list though this one is the least brilliant of this list for one thing alone, Mr Hoppy (The Man) is very dishonest about his trick, he should have asked Mrs Silver to be his wife in the first place, instead of swapping... Oh, sorry, I got a bit carried away, you'll have to see my Esio Trot Book Review for the details. Onwards!

No. 5 The Twits

Brilliant! Absolutely scrumdiddlyumptious! (extremely scrumptious; excellent, splendid; (esp. of food) delicious.) I would have a right mind to put this book further up in the list, but we have better books to put in that place. Eyeballs in drinks, frogs in beds worms in spaghetti, this book is revolting and yet fantastic, I also have a review of this book, So go and check it out!

No. 4 The Witches

'Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’, and 'One Child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear!' are just a few of the stupendous quotes in Roald Dahl: The Witches, It's about a little boy who is turned into a mouse by a witch and with the help of his grandmamma finishes off all the witches in England! It'll make your sides split and your brain burst with another classic of Mr R. Dahl.

No. 3 The BFG

This was a difficult choice between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the BFG but eventually, I settled on this decision. It's a book about a little girl called Sophie who's carried away by the Big Friendly Giant (BFG) who can't talk properly and lives with a bunch of big unfriendly giants who eat people, so Sophie and The BFG go to see the queen and ask her to get rid of them all and she does exactly that. This is an especially Brilliantly Brilliant book, with the Frobscottle, Dream-catching, Human Bean nipping and so on.

No. 2 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

This is Roald Dahl's second book for children, and a jolly good one it is too. A poor little blighter called Charlie only gets one chocolate bar a year and finds himself getting a golden ticket to the tour of Mr Willy Wonkas Chocolate factory, on the way a boy is nearly turned to fudge, a girl is turned into a giant plum, a spoilt brat finds herself down the garbage shoot and a TV watcher is turned to the size of a pencil, and so Charlie a very poor little lad is given the chocolate factory to run, and to live in! This story is up in 2nd place because... well... it's just stupendously genius, it's so addictive and funny, emotional and shocking. This book makes you feel so warm inside and I nearly cried when I found out I had finished the book, I highly recommend this book. I suppose this brings us to Number 1!

No. 1 Matilda

I cannot express how much I love this book, this book sums up Roald Dahl for me, Matilda is so intensely scintillating I feel as though I'm in Miss Honeys class myself, this is definitely the best of R.D. for me.

Matilda is a bookworm ho spends hours in the library, she can read anything and complete any sum and the age of five, but her parents aren't so appreciative of her abilities, and when she finally goes to school, her teacher, Miss Honey is shocked at her genius, but the school head, is not so impressed, Miss Trunchbull hates all children and throws them across fields by the hair, and it turns out that Miss Honey, as sweet as honey, is not so distantly related to the headmistress. I do believe that Roald Dahl is more genius than Matilda in this book, Roald is a Legend!