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" 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. "
Terry Pratchett
See
Know
Serious
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" I like being a writer. "
Terry Pratchett
Writer
Like
Being
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Myself
Sometimes
Work
" This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. "
Terry Pratchett
Fast Lane
Fast
Lane
" Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. "
Terry Pratchett
Last
Never
Complicated
" When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that. "
Terry Pratchett
Place
Backwards
Eyes
" Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. "
Terry Pratchett
Fantasy
Bicycle
Exercise
" Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. "
Terry Pratchett
Death
Good
Evil
" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "
Terry Pratchett
Sign
Sure
Marks
" There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. "
Terry Pratchett
Through
See
Humanity
" They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "
Terry Pratchett
Ignorance
They Say
Bad
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Got
Brain
Three
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Die
Book
Want
" Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. "
Terry Pratchett
Sometimes
Than
Better
" 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
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Now
Books
Money
" I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. "
Terry Pratchett
Say
Kind
You
" 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
" 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. "
Terry Pratchett
Teachers
Think
Cheeseburger
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Fantasy
Fly
Great
" It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. "
Terry Pratchett
Die
Eyes
Life
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
You
Words
Hard
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Memories
Hang
Fact
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Believe
Die
Serious
" The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. "
Terry Pratchett
Speak
News
Job
" It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. "
Terry Pratchett
Two
Alzheimer
Knowing
" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "
Terry Pratchett
Die
Beginning
You
" I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. "
Terry Pratchett
Write
Back
Books
" I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things. "
Terry Pratchett
Plan
Really
Things
" You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though. "
Terry Pratchett
You
Together
Lights
" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "
Terry Pratchett
Sooner Or Later
Someone
Dog