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" I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. "
Terry Pratchett
Fan
Cannot
Great
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" There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. "
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" 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. "
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" I like being a writer. "
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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 think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' "
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" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "
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" It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. "
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" Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. "
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" 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. "
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" It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. "
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" This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. "
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" Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. "
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" Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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