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" It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. "

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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 got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. "

" I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large. "

" Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old. "

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

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

" I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. "

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" I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's. "

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

" I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed. "

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

" '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. "

" Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' "

" 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. "

" I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. "

" 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 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.' "

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

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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. "

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

" You can't die with an unfinished book. "

" This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. "

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

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" I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. "