Tag: Terry Pratchett
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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.’
Terry Pratchett
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You can’t die with an unfinished book.
Terry Pratchett
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There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.
Terry Pratchett
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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.
Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
Terry Pratchett
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I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.
Terry Pratchett