Terry Pratchett quotes - page 35

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. (Terry Pratchett)
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. View quote
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I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things. View quote
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I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense. View quote
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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'. View quote
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I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. View quote
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Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Terry Pratchett)
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. View quote
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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. View quote
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I like being a writer. View quote
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I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. View quote
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It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. View quote
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Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. View quote
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It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. (Terry Pratchett)
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. View quote
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I was a very keen reader of science fiction. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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