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

Terry Pratchett

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" Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done. "

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" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.' "

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" I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is. "

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" The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? "

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" They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "

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" 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. "

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

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" My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. "

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" I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. "

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

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" I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. "

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" When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that. "

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" Freedom without limits is just a word. "

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

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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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" Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. "

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" I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off. "

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" I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. "

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

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