The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. 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.

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.