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" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "
Terry Pratchett
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" I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. "
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" 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. "
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" You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. "
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" 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. "
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" I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. "
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" In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is. "
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" There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books. "
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" I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You can't die with an unfinished book. "
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" Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. "
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" Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. "
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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 have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. "
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" Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. "
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" I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off. "
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