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" I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'. "

Terry Pratchett

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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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" There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony. "

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" 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. "

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" By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often. "

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" Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. "

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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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" Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW. "

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" Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. "

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" The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. "

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