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Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is escapism, but wait...

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

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Terry Pratchett

There's a lot of science in i...

There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.' I've never, ever been able to do one. I remember one occasion at Warwick University, when Jack and Ian were at their wits' end because I couldn't get it. I felt totally ashamed.

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Terry Pratchett

One of the hardest lessons in...

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

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Terry Pratchett

Granny bit her lip. She was n...

Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

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Terry Pratchett

And it came to pass that in t...

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

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Terry Pratchett

Actors, said Granny, witherin...

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

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Terry Pratchett

But that was just it - hate w...

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

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Terry Pratchett

I would advise budding writer...

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

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Terry Pratchett

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy tha...

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting themes and ideas into their books, and so for me it was a short leap to go from the fantasy and Sci-Fi genres to folklore, mythology, ancient history and philosophy. I did not read philosophy because I set out to become a philosopher; I read it because it looked interesting.

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Terry Pratchett

No one thinks that young adul...

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

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Terry Pratchett

Sometimes I feel that the wor...

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

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Terry Pratchett

It's very rare that I ever go...

It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.

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Terry Pratchett

I would rather stare at the w...

I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.

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Terry Pratchett

The author can always delve i...

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

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Terry Pratchett

A good banana daiquiri is har...

A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

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Terry Pratchett

I don't read an awful lot of ...

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

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Terry Pratchett

I discovered fantasy and scie...

I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.

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Terry Pratchett

Once you have your character ...

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.

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Terry Pratchett

I'd like to sell a lot of boo...

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

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Terry Pratchett

The characters are the plot. ...

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

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