Good writing is essentially rewriting.

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

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

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

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.