Roald Dahl

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
-Roald Dahl

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
-Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer.
His only compensation is absolute freedom.
-Roald Dahl

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
-Roald Dahl

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
-Roald Dahl

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

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
-Roald Dahl