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" I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. "

Terry Pratchett

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" It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. "

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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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" 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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" They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "

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" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "

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" Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. "

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" One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff. "

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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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" The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. "

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" I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? "

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" Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. "

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" Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. "

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" The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. "

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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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" I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. "

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" When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. "

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" My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. "

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

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" It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. "

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" 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. "

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" I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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? "

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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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