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" Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. "
Terry Pratchett
You
Starting
Page
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" It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. "
Terry Pratchett
Useful
Go
Out
" The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? "
Terry Pratchett
Getting Older
Family
Society
" You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. "
Terry Pratchett
Writing
Stupid
People
" I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. "
Terry Pratchett
Glad
Genre
Got
" I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. "
Terry Pratchett
Professional
I Can
Grow
" I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is. "
Terry Pratchett
Work
Think
Children
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Cruel
Society
Philosophy
" I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with. "
Terry Pratchett
Use
Dragon
I Can
" I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that. "
Terry Pratchett
View
Waiting
Think
" Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. "
Terry Pratchett
Nothing
House
Go
" You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake. "
Terry Pratchett
Cake
Writing
World
" When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. "
Terry Pratchett
Singing
Together
You
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Advice
Time
Reading
" Freedom without limits is just a word. "
Terry Pratchett
Word
Freedom
Without
" Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' I don't know. I like being a writer. "
Terry Pratchett
You
Me
Wife
" I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. "
Terry Pratchett
Living
Friends
Hope
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Art
Book
Character
" Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "
Terry Pratchett
Always
Waiting
Darkness
" The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine. "
Terry Pratchett
Father
Good
Thought
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Know
You
Yesterday
" I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things. "
Terry Pratchett
Plan
Really
Things
" I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up. "
Terry Pratchett
Run
Body
Dead
" Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. "
Terry Pratchett
Fail
Opera
Wrong
" In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. "
Terry Pratchett
Exploded
Beginning
Nothing
" There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. "
Terry Pratchett
Know
Like
Sunshine
" I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course. "
Terry Pratchett
Know
Me
Someone
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Think
You
Minds
" Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film. "
Terry Pratchett
Reason
Why
Think
" I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'. "
Terry Pratchett
Tell
Book
Myself
" I like being a writer. "
Terry Pratchett
Writer
Like
Being