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" I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. "

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" In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. "

Terry Pratchett

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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. "

" You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. "

" I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "

" 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. "

" 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. "

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

Terry Pratchett

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man. "

" I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' "

" In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. "

" 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. "

Terry Pratchett

You

Wife

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

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

Terry Pratchett

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Hard

" He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.' "

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

" If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. "

" You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. "

" There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. "

Terry Pratchett

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Sunshine

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

" I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is. "