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" I like being a writer. "
Terry Pratchett
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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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" 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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" 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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" Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. "
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Wages
" I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense. "
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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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" I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. "
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Box
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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? "
Terry Pratchett
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Family
Society
" Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. "
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You
Starting
Page
" 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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Cake
Writing
World
" Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. "
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Speak
Journalism
Life
" This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. "
Terry Pratchett
Fast Lane
Fast
Lane
" 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
" I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system. "
Terry Pratchett
Write
Think
Good
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Evolution
Angel
Day
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Use
Dragon
I Can
" Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. "
Terry Pratchett
Hands
Up
Always
" 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
" '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
" Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. "
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Last
Never
Complicated
" 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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Through
See
Humanity
" The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. "
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Short
Sharp
Sword
" We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still. "
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Past
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Die
" Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. "
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Wonderful
Government
Angry
" I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. "
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Science Fiction
Astronomy
Science
" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "
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Sooner Or Later
Someone
Dog
" It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. "
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Alone
You
People
" 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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Apple
Rules
Simple
" I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. "
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Sympathy
Go
University
" 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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