English - Author | April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015
There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.
Terry Pratchett
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Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.
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No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
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Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
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I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.
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My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.
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I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
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My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
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Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
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I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
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In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
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