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" 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. "

Terry Pratchett

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" I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. "

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" When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. "

" Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. "

" The harder I work, the luckier I become. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. "

" 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. "

" It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. "

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

" I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's. "

" 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. "

" If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother. "

" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "

" Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. "

" I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. "

" 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. "