‘It is Quent’s pictures rather than my own written descriptions that have brought to life such characters as the BFG, Miss Trunchbull, Mr Twit and The Grand High Witch. It is the faces and the bodies he draws that are remembered by children all over the world … When he and I work together on a new book and he has a pen in his hand, it is magical to watch the facility with which he can sketch out a character or a scene. “You mean more like this?” he will say, and the nib will fly over the paper at incredible speed, making thin lines in black ink, and in thirty seconds he has produced a new picture. “Perhaps,” I will say, “he should have a more threatening look about him.” Once again the pen flies over the paper and there before you is exactly what you are after. But this is not to say that I “help” him with many of the characters he draws for my books. Most of them he does entirely on his own and they are far better and funnier than anything I could think of.’