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" I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things. "

Terry Pratchett

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" Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. "

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" I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.' "

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" It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing. "

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" Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' "

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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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" There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony. "

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" 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'. "

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

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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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" Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. "

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" Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. "

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" I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me. "

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" The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress. "

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" I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. "

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" I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. "

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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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" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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