Roald Dahl's approach to writing

‘He tended to make light of his work. He didn't like to talk about it and there was nothing of the pained artist about him. The archive shows that in fact he was absolutely painstaking. The archive shows the honing process, the hard graft of writing. He worked very hard at getting it right.'

Amanda Conquy, director of the Dahl estate, on Roald Dahl's approach to writing