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" 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
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" 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. "
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Reading
Start
History
" I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things. "
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Really
Things
" In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. "
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Ancient
Cats
" Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' "
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Mule
" There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. "
Terry Pratchett
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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. "
Terry Pratchett
Thoughts
Parents
Mother
" Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "
Terry Pratchett
Always
Waiting
Darkness
" If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. "
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Past
Dead
Government
" Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. "
Terry Pratchett
I Am
Library
Me
" 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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Nothing
House
Go
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Mean
You
Book
" I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up. "
Terry Pratchett
Run
Body
Dead
" 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
Know
Like
Sunshine
" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "
Terry Pratchett
Sign
Sure
Marks
" I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. "
Terry Pratchett
Fan
Cannot
Great
" 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
" Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. "
Terry Pratchett
You
Starting
Page
" The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "
Terry Pratchett
Death
Goodbye
Think
" When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. "
Terry Pratchett
Fantasy
Read
Shelves
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Progress
Finish
Day
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Home
Help
Medical
" I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. "
Terry Pratchett
Professional
I Can
Grow
" Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film. "
Terry Pratchett
Reason
Why
Think
" I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. "
Terry Pratchett
Sympathy
Go
University
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Advice
Time
Reading
" Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon. "
Terry Pratchett
Myself
Sometimes
Work
" I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed. "
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Everyone
Feels
Often
" I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. "
Terry Pratchett
Cruel
Society
Philosophy
" 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.' "
Terry Pratchett
Apple
Rules
Simple
" Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. "
Terry Pratchett
You
Words
Hard