Tag: Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
Terry Pratchett
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I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.
Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.
Terry Pratchett
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Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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Freedom without limits is just a word.
Terry Pratchett
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You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‘The A-Team’ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
Terry Pratchett
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I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.
Terry Pratchett