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" An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean. "

Terry Pratchett

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" As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book. "

" Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. "

" I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. "

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" I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. "

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" There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. "

" Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. "

" My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books. "

" If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. "

" I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. "

" Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. "

" Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. "

" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "

" I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large. "

" I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. "

" I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while. "

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" Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon. "

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