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- Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground…
- What's money interested in? More money.
- Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and…
- After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang.…
- You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know…
- I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.
- SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION,…
- I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.
- 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…
- 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 think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than…
- They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then…
- Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really…
- If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
- I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.
- … people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually…
- What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said,…
- You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
- They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow…
- Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
- The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.
- The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more…
- Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said…
- But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult…
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