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" Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' "

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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. "

Terry Pratchett

Now

Books

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" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things. "

" Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. "

Terry Pratchett

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Care

" 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. "

Terry Pratchett

Nothing

House

" 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. "

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

" 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

Always

" 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. "

" There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. "

" You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake. "

" 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. "

" In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. "

" Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. "

" 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. "

" 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

Back

Hard

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

" 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. "

" Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. "

" 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. "

" There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory. "

" 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. "

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

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