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" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Through
See
Humanity
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" The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. "
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" 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. "
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" My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. "
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" '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 Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. "
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" 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. "
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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'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. "
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Genre
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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'. "
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Book
Myself
" 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. "
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Brain
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" I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with. "
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Use
Dragon
I Can
" That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'? "
Terry Pratchett
Family
Thoughts
Mother
" Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. "
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You
Starting
Page
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Drive
End
Know
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Humanity
Voice
Understanding
" Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. "
Terry Pratchett
Prove
Care
Me
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Write
Side
Head
" The harder I work, the luckier I become. "
Terry Pratchett
Become
Harder
Luckier
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Imagination
Me
Wild
" 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
Me
" I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. "
Terry Pratchett
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I Can
Grow
" It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. "
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Life
" 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. "
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Angel
Day
" 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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Book
Want
" Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. "
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Death
Good
Evil
" I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up. "
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Run
Body
Dead
" Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. "
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Sometimes
Than
Better
" 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. "
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Good
Thought
" The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself. "
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Thought
People
" 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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Great
" I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. "
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