English - Author | April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry Pratchett
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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
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You can't die with an unfinished book.
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I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.
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I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
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What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
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I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
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I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.
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I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
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I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
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I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
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