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- I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into…
- In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new…
- My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author…
- 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…
- 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…
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