Quotes from Enid Blyton

The red caravan, picked out with black and yellow, is ours,' said Dick. 'The blue one, picked out in black and yellow, is yours and Anne's.' 'Woof,' said Timmy at once. 'Oh, sorry – yours too, Timmy,' said Dick at once, and everyone chuckled.

surprise he turned and spat into the ditch. 'That's what I think of him!

13 Amanda is caught out

This was the signal for everyone to begin talking at the tops of their voices.

The right of Enid Blyton to be identified

Soon Lotta, Jimmy, and the two grown-ups were sitting round the tea-table. Lotta was on her very best behaviour. She didn't make a single face.

The Family at Red Roofs

town, but now their father had a job in the country, so they were all to move as soon as they possibly could. 'What fun to be in the country!' said Joe.

get up again and go on.

of the stream water.

No one is allowed to live here unless they first lose their tempers and then get permission from me to take a house. - The Land of Tempers

disobedience

as head-girl of the form, and

Tim didn't seem to like the storm either. He sat close by George, his ears cocked, and growled whenever the thunder rumbled. The children fed him with titbits and he ate them eagerly, for he was hungry too.

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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!