Terry Pratchett Quotes
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------=_Part_9105927_1268179744.1497411309897 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this= . Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and th= e pen is very sharp. Terry Pratchett The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist= on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you an= ywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. = Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living l= onger and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we lea= rn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their le= sson will be harsher still. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that s= omeone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing. Terry Pratchett=C2= =A0 =C2=A0Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darknes= s. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I'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 control= led imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully= calculated. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a n= ew race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like th= at. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a = pagan ceremony. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one ha= lf so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. Terry = Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century= , and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour -= that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something li= ke 'Three Men in a Boat.' Terry Pratchett =C2=A0The 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 goo= dbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behi= nd to look after the shop. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they= really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the= city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is de= stroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to th= e Galaxy.' Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you= think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' = I don't know. I like being a writer. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, a= nd he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Terry Pratchett My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like a= nd aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudl= y, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. Terry Pratchett There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlik= ely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirica= l evidence that they exist. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0You 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 ar= ound 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 =C2=A0In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Terry Pratchett= =C2=A0 =C2=A0Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that wh= en nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is= the time to buy a house on the next continent. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massiv= e amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I l= ast saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a gam= e as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitu= de and sense of style. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. Terry P= ratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from= the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracl= e had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved= monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs. Terry= Pratchett Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too = late that he's been playing with two queens all along. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eye= s. It is in fact true. It's called living. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forc= es of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one = seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, d= emon. Terry Pratchett Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. Terry Pratc= hett=C2=A0 =C2=A0You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the = news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you = get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thundersto= rms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.' Terry Pratch= ett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment i= s: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box = when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. Terry Pratchett= =C2=A0 =C2=A0The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. Terry Prat= chett=C2=A0 =C2=A0It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - = one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. Terry Pra= tchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. A= nd they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society c= ope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family= relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? Terry Prat= chett =C2=A0I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your gran= dchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are approp= riate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certai= n that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. Terry Pratc= hett =C2=A0Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matt= er how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first= , and is waiting for it. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember t= he old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich ma= n. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are n= ot heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how peop= le listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research i= nto the disease, as I have done. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. Terry Pratch= ett =C2=A0'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come t= o think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a che= eseburger. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you co= uld do is give them a meaningful look. Terry Pratchett Meaningful, Look, Yo= u Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong= . Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to u= nderstand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised f= or telling one another when the best fruit is. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm = me. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the= last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sy= mpathy for those who did. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals = that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadver= tently mentioning at least three of them. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I c= are. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know ho= w to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ= someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course= . Terry Pratchett =C2=A0You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't hav= e one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flash= ing lights, though. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother. Ter= ry Pratchett =C2=A0Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.= Terry Pratchett The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of th= e number of people in it. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried = from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against th= e disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how pe= ople see you. It makes you feel quite alone. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0You can't die with an unfinished book. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession= , that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives,= to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a l= ong stay in God's waiting room. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very littl= e, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which a= re in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomst= icks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall o= ff. And you try not to use them too often. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I'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 - standing ther= e at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your ow= n innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you'= re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my o= wn garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. = Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' = Who could say that this is bad? Terry Pratchett =C2=A0In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 year= s ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly ne= w about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval time= s, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. Terry = Pratchett =C2=A0I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time= : sometimes you have to get it out of your system. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suit= able for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years = old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I= was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond bo= oks. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'D= octor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed int= o modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, wh= o are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now abo= ut a parallel universe. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid = who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and= I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought= - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is inc= redibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'St= ar Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're cleve= r with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows yo= u to death. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wis= dom. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would ha= ve 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 w= ere very old. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know t= he songs that my grandfather and my father sang. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's = a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys= came up with. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. Abou= t the government. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are importa= nt. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and r= emember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and k= nock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is. Terr= y Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there= at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own= innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the fa= mous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'? Terr= y Pratchett =C2=A0I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a = professional gardener, and it's in the blood. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not '= celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we a= re our words. They're what people meet. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devi= se, is going to be perfect. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. Te= rry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective o= f another one. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all w= alks of life. Especially local journalism. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and jo= urnalism, those things made me who I am. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territ= ory. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the = fantasy shelves. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is in= tensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one reas= on why it might be hard to film. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0The harder I work, the luckier I become. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I 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=C2=A0 =C2=A0There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easil= y, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 an= d was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', ha= llucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite = that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who= would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes= , Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip ba= ck into monkeys again. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. = It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.= Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few ver= y simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' = and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big puni= shment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.' Terry P= ratchett =C2=A0I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decid= ed to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretche= d disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingen= uously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to h= ave. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about de= ath, they worry about a bad death. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. Terry Pratch= ett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the el= derly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establ= ish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a wh= ile I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off. Terry Pratchett=C2= =A0 =C2=A0I 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 30 books in = the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which h= ave won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is. Terry Pratch= ett=C2=A0 =C2=A0If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You'v= e already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, re= ad anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and th= en you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same o= ld stuff and move it around a bit. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I wa= s going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science= . Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a = lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happil= y say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just= from writing books. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I= 've got Alzheimer's. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good thin= gs to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by th= e community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely a= vailable in Palestine. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Freedom without limits is just a word. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going t= o end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a mat= ter of joining the dots. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was= me. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I like being a writer. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the s= crewed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wonderin= g if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only s= crewed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves. Ter= ry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0Money 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 i= n that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW. Terr= y Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have = hope. Terry Pratchett Hope, Money, Friends Dickens, as you know, never got = round to starting his home page. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven= 't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lo= t of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a phi= losophy comes. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious a= nd ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, = rather than suffer. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote i= n a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, b= ut always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards do= wn on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. Terry Pratchett= =C2=A0 =C2=A0'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treat= ing it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when yo= u do so. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to= back, and I work very hard on them. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going ba= ckwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that. = Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if th= e author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if y= ou see what I mean. Terry Pratchett Book, You, See I was a very keen reader= of science fiction. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it= past them - I'm in dead trouble. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. Te= rry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and= I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really b= ig series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thou= ght what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself. Terry Pratchett f One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. The= y have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots= of stuff. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the s= ame day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file= . I dread not having work in progress. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I 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 a= round in people's memories for a while. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be com= fortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't ha= ve to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I thin= k I almost miss that. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things. Terry Pratche= tt =C2=A0Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to = go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it= fits what was going to be happening soon. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and t= hat's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'. Terry= Pratchett=C2=A0 As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I= don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't = die with an unfinished book. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed. Terry Pratchett= =C2=A0 There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see hu= manity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the t= own. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. Terry Pratc= hett =C2=A0By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you= will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. Terry Prat= chett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Je= sus preached the golden rule, by and large. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 =C2=A0I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead b= ody, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on t= hrowing up after you run out of things to throw up. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 o Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and i= nternal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivere= d in a matter of seconds on the stage. Terry Pratchett =C2=A0Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that yo= u needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an int= imation of the divine. Terry Pratchett=C2=A0 ------=_Part_9105927_1268179744.1497411309897 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microso= ft-com:vml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[= if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>= 96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><bo= dy><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica N= eue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13159">In ancie= nt times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Terry = Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974000513= 35_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helveti= ca Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span><= /div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style= =3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvet= ica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_= 13199"> The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short,= and the pen is very sharp. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "He= lvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13210">The trouble with having an open mind, of c= ourse, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things = in it. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_= 1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: = "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"= ><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162">= <span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&qu= ot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149= 7400051335_13216"> Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It mig= ht not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, = I could be wrong. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fo= nt-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-s= ize: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051= 335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvet= ica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_1_1497400051335_13223"> We have been so successful in the past c= entury 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 p= ass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still. Terry Pratchett&nb= sp;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><s= pan style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= ;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div di= r=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb= (51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sa= ns-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13237"> I= t's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone,= somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing. Terry Pratchett </spa= n></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span styl= e=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helve= tica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr= " id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51,= 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif= ; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13248"> Sometimes= it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. Terry Pratch= ett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><= div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"colo= r: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ari= al, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13257">&= nbsp;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 controll= ed imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully = calculated. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fam= ily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1= 4px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13= 162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Ne= ue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_= 1_1497400051335_13268">There was once a caustic comment from someone sugges= ting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married,= amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one= here the other day, a pagan ceremony. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13279"> They say a little knowled= ge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance= . Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helve= tica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span= ></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style= =3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvet= ica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_= 13294">This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.= Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497= 400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "= Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br><= /span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span = style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", H= elvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_13306"> I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the = 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of Engl= ish humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in = something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_1316= 2"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue= ", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_= 1497400051335_13329"> The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal = Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sob= bing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of th= em has been left behind to look after the shop. Terry Pratchett</span></div= ><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"co= lor: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, A= rial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); f= ont-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-= size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13331"> I think when peo= ple mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the serie= s is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. I= t's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the = start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' Terry Pratc= hett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13= 162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Ne= ue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div>= <div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"col= or: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ar= ial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13353">= Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you= think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' = I don't know. I like being a writer. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div= dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: = rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial,= sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-f= amily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:= 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_= 13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13362" style=3D"color: rgb(51= , 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-= serif; font-size: 14px;"> Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a = day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Terry P= ratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_1316= 2"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue= ", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><d= iv dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_13376" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &qu= ot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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</spa= n></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span styl= e=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helve= tica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr= " id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51,= 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif= ; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13395">There is a rumo= ur going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I h= ave enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that= they exist. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_= 1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: = "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"= ><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162">= <span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13407" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 5= 1); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; = font-size: 14px;"> You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragi= c relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened peo= ple 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, peop= le will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. Terry Pratch= ett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><s= pan style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= ;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div di= r=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb= (51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sa= ns-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13413"> I= n the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Terry Pratchett </s= pan></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span st= yle=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Hel= vetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"l= tr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 5= 1, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-ser= if; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13425"> Eight y= ears involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing ca= n possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to = buy a house on the next continent. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"= ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, = 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-se= rif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &= quot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" = id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13430"> The bravest person I've ever = met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very r= are, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld conventi= on, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long = afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. Terry Pratch= ett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_13444"><br id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13443"></span></= div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yu= i_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13441" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;">Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. Ter= ry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974000= 51335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helv= etica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></spa= n></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span styl= e=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helve= tica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335= _13463"> I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was ta= ken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been = a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of= evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't their= s. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974000= 51335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helv= etica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></spa= n></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span styl= e=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helve= tica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335= _13474">Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out = til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. Terry Pratch= ett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><s= pan style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= ;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div di= r=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb= (51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sa= ns-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13476"> I= t is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It i= s in fact true. It's called living. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D= "ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51,= 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-s= erif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_= 1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: = "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"= id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13495"> Over the centuries, mankind = has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, goo= d works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the d= ouble-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Terry Pratchett</span></div>= <div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"col= or: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ar= ial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fo= nt-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-s= ize: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13509">Everything starts somew= here, although many physicists disagree. Terry Pratchett </span></div>= <div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"col= or: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ar= ial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fo= nt-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-s= ize: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13511"> You have to have = really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everythin= g that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then th= e writing is a piece of cake. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" = id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 5= 1); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; = font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497= 400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "= Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13523"> He was the sort of person who stoo= d on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All t= he Gods are bastards.' Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51= ); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; f= ont-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974= 00051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "H= elvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13525"> Personally, I think the best motto = for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' Terry= Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13= 162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Ne= ue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div>= <div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"col= or: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ar= ial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13536">= I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box = when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. Terry Pratchett&n= bsp;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><= span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&quo= t;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div d= ir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rg= b(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, s= ans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13538"> = The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett&= nbsp;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162">= <span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&qu= ot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div = dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: r= gb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, = sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13549"> = ;It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one w= as Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. Terry Pratchet= t </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162= "><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&= quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><di= v dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color:= rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial= , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13551">&nb= sp;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 re= lationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? Terry Pratche= tt</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><sp= an style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= , Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13566"> I = believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildre= n around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on= a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that o= ne of them has been left behind to look after the shop. Terry Pratchett</sp= an></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span sty= le=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helv= etica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"lt= r" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400= 051335_13571" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica= Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Light th= inks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast li= ght travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiti= ng for it. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_1= 6_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fami= ly: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14= px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_13588"> In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council ho= uses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin b= ath. I'm not a rich man. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr"= id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, = 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;= font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149= 7400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "= ;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13590"> I've got wide tastes, but I don= 't like jazz. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-f= amily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:= 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_= 13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica = Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_= 0_1_1497400051335_13601"> Seven hundred thousand people who have demen= tia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettab= ly, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away = $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done. Terry Pratchett&n= bsp;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><= span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&quo= t;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div d= ir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rg= b(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, s= ans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13603"> = Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. Terry Pratchett</s= pan></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span st= yle=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Hel= vetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"l= tr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13614" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetic= a Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> 'Educat= ional' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it= , some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. Te= rry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335= _13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica= Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></d= iv><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"= color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,= Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_1401= 5"> Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. Terry Pratchett<= /span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span = style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", H= elvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D= "ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51,= 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-s= erif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14017"> You c= an't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is g= ive them a meaningful look. Terry Pratchett Meaningful, Look, You Opera hap= pens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. Terry Pra= tchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"= ><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&q= uot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div= dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: = rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial,= sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14055">&nbs= p;I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to under= stand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for t= elling one another when the best fruit is. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div= dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: = rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial,= sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14057"= style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", = Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> I mean, I wouldn't pa= y more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me. Terry Pratchett </= span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span s= tyle=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", He= lvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"= ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, = 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-se= rif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14074">Never trust = any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingred= ient goes in, and then immediately clouds. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div= dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: = rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial,= sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-f= amily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:= 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14079"> I didn't go to univer= sity. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. T= erry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005133= 5_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetic= a Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></= div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yu= i_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14092" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;"> Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genit= als that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without ina= dvertently mentioning at least three of them. Terry Pratchett</span></div><= div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"colo= r: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ari= al, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fon= t-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-si= ze: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14095"> Go on, prove me wr= ong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. Terry Pratchett&nbs= p;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><sp= an style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= , Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14106"> I = think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do = it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone= to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course. Terry = Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><= div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"colo= r: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ari= al, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14108">&= nbsp;You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have= one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashi= ng lights, though. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); f= ont-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-= size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14122" style=3D"color: r= gb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, = sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really = don't know why I'd bother. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "He= lvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14141"> Taxation is just a sophisticated way= of demanding money with menaces. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"l= tr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 5= 1, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-ser= if; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_= 1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &q= uot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14143">The intelligence of the creature kno= wn as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. Terry Prat= chett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162">= <span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&qu= ot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div = dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: r= gb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, = sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14185"> = ;Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from = its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. Terry Pratchett</span></div><d= iv dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color= : rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Aria= l, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yu= i_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font= -family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-siz= e: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14187"> It seems that when = you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you h= ave Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes yo= u feel quite alone. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14198" style=3D"color= : rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Aria= l, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> You can't die with an unfinished boo= k. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974000= 51335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helv= etica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></spa= n></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14201" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font= -family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-siz= e: 14px;"> It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical = profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and health= ier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home w= ithout a long stay in God's waiting room. Terry Pratchett </span></div= ><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"co= lor: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, A= rial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); f= ont-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-= size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14213"> I'm a fantasy wr= iter, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or t= wo basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. Yo= u have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody gr= eat strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to= use them too often. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "He= lvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14215"> I've lost both parents in the last t= wo years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing abou= t being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't = switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mil= l. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974000= 51335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helv= etica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></spa= n></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14227" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font= -family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-siz= e: 14px;"> What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, on= e day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference. Terry P= ratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_1316= 2"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue= ", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><d= iv dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color= : rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Aria= l, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14266">&n= bsp;I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own= garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh= , and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Wh= o could say that this is bad? Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" = id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 5= 1); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; = font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497= 400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "= Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14276"> 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 about this - death has featured in art= and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fasci= nation with the Grim Reaper. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51= ); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; f= ont-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974= 00051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "H= elvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14314"> I think it does Discworld good if I= don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of you= r system. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1= 497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &qu= ot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b= r></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><sp= an style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= , Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_14321"> My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a bo= ok that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read wh= o are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bo= nd books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to rea= d James Bond books. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "He= lvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14328"> The most watched programme on the BB= C, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that scie= nce fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparent= s out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job.= No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. Terry Pratchett</s= pan></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span st= yle=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Hel= vetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"l= tr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 5= 1, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-ser= if; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14335"> Mum had= done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes boo= ks and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought th= is is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know a= bout 'The Wind in the Willows.' Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14342"> It cannot be said often e= nough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm s= peaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction write= rs tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesti= ng stuff and real stuff. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); f= ont-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-= size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helve= tica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14349"> Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in= the creche, and it follows you to death. Terry Pratchett </span></div= ><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"co= lor: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, A= rial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); f= ont-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-= size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14355"> Knowing that you= are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. Terry Pratchett&n= bsp;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><= span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&quo= t;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div d= ir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rg= b(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, s= ans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14362"> = Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have see= n a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you mi= ght well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were ve= ry old. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0= _1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:= "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;= "><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"= ><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&q= uot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14= 97400051335_14368"> When you're all singing together, it brings things= together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. Terry P= ratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_1316= 2"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue= ", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><d= iv dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color= : rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Aria= l, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14514">&n= bsp;I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a = speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys c= ame up with. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fa= mily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: = 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_1= 3162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica N= eue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0= _1_1497400051335_14516"> Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm a= ngry about bankers. About the government. Terry Pratchett </span></div= ><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"co= lor: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, A= rial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); f= ont-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-= size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14520"> In all seriousne= ss, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has= ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at s= ome point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty f= ive thousand words - that's how long a novel is. Terry Pratchett </spa= n></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span styl= e=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helve= tica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr= " id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51,= 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif= ; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14531"> That's th= e most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother= 's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thou= ghts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novel= ists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'? Terry Pratchett</sp= an></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span sty= le=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helv= etica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"lt= r" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51= , 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-seri= f; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14536"> I grow a= s many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional g= ardener, and it's in the blood. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14548"> I'm not really good at fu= n-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself= is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what peop= le meet. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14= 97400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quo= t;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br= ></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><spa= n style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue",= Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400= 051335_14552"> Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else c= an say or devise, is going to be perfect. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div = dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: r= gb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, = sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fa= mily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: = 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14563"> I am a great fan of sc= ience, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. Terry Pratchett </span></= div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D= "color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica= , Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14565"> It's useful t= o go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. Terr= y Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helve= tica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span= ></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14576" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fa= mily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: = 14px;"> Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people i= n all walks of life. Especially local journalism. Terry Pratchett </sp= an></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span sty= le=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helv= etica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"lt= r" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51= , 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-seri= f; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14584"> Truthful= ly, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, thos= e things made me who I am. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "He= lvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14590"> There are some people who hate my gu= ts. But that goes with the territory. Terry Pratchett </span></div><di= v dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color:= rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial= , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui= _3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-= family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size= : 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14601"> When I was a kid, I = read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. Terry Pra= tchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_= 13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica = Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></di= v><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"c= olor: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, = Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14607= "> Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is = intensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one re= ason why it might be hard to film. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div d= ir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rg= b(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, s= ans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fam= ily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1= 4px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14614"> The harder I work, the = luckier I become. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fo= nt-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-s= ize: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051= 335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvet= ica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_1_1497400051335_14625"> I don't think about the end game. I've g= ot lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. Terry Pratche= tt </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_1316= 2"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue= ", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><d= iv dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color= : rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Aria= l, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14654">&n= bsp;There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily,= but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. Terry Pratchett </span></= div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D= "color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica= , Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14665"> I read the 'O= ld 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 mi= ldly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of= that, it all made perfect sense. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div di= r=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb= (51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sa= ns-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_1= 6_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fami= ly: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14= px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14667"> Evolution was far more t= hrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising = ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every= day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. Terry P= ratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005133= 5_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetic= a Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></= div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D= "color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica= , Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_146= 82"> 'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written = it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my s= oul. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_= 1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &q= uot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><= br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><s= pan style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= ;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974= 00051335_14684"> Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandme= nts to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards throu= gh the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, t= hat's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights= issue.' Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14= 97400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quo= t;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br= ></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><spa= n style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue",= Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400= 051335_14695"> I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an in= sult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could agains= t this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say= , rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Al= zheimer's to have. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); f= ont-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-= size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helve= tica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14706"> It's not morbid to talk about death. Mo= st people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. Terry Prat= chett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162">= <span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&qu= ot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div = dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: r= gb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, = sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14713"> = ;I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. Terry Pratchett&n= bsp;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><= span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&quo= t;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div d= ir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rg= b(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, s= ans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14715"> = I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly = ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish wh= ether we have a policy of life at any cost. Terry Pratchett </span></d= iv><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"= color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,= Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14726"> I have to wri= te because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's goi= ng to bang the side of my head off. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div = dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: r= gb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, = sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fa= mily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: = 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14728"> I think I work much ha= rder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting= that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is = the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've nev= er been quite certain why this is. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div d= ir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rg= b(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, s= ans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fam= ily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1= 4px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14739"> If you are going to wri= te, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read= other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems intere= sting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy= , all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a= bit. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &= quot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">= <br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><= span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&quo= t;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497= 400051335_14747"> I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and dur= ing the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who k= new their science. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); f= ont-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-= size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helve= tica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14754">There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air,= a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some gha= stly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All t= he money we got was mine, just from writing books. Terry Pratchett</span></= div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D= "color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica= , Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005133= 5_14756" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue= ", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> I think the b= est thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's= . Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149= 7400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "= ;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br>= </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span= style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", = Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974000= 51335_14769"> The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot= of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly tho= ught of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have = been widely available in Palestine. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div = dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: r= gb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, = sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fa= mily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: = 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14771"> Freedom without limits= is just a word. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_1= 6_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fami= ly: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14= px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_14782"> My own books drive themselves. I know roughly w= here a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fi= ngers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. Terry Pratchett </span>= </div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style= =3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvet= ica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr"= id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, = 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;= font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14784"> I'm glad a= genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. Terry Pratc= hett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13= 162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Ne= ue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div>= <div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"col= or: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ar= ial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14796">= I like being a writer. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"= ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, = 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-se= rif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14798" style= =3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvet= ica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For an author, the nice character= s aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, t= he characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the r= ight thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping sc= rews. They're doing it for themselves. Terry Pratchett </span></div><d= iv dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color= : rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Aria= l, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yu= i_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font= -family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-siz= e: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14805"> Money is an unavoid= able consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't ha= ve written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small co= mpared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW. Terry Pratchett </span><= /div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style= =3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvet= ica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr"= id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_14812" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica N= eue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> I have a l= iving will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. Terry Prat= chett Hope, Money, Friends Dickens, as you know, never got round to startin= g his home page. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_1= 6_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fami= ly: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14= px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_14816"> Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. Terry = Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><= div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"colo= r: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ari= al, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14827">&= nbsp;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. Terry Pratchett <= /span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span = style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", H= elvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D= "ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51,= 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-s= erif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14829"> No on= e's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time i= n your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy com= es. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1= 497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &qu= ot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b= r></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><sp= an style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= , Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_14851"> I believe it should be possible for someone stricken w= ith a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with= medical help, rather than suffer. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div d= ir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rg= b(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, s= ans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fam= ily: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1= 4px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14853"> I particularly admire a= re Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice whi= ch was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate i= ts little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's= that that I'm trying to do. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"= ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, = 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-se= rif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &= quot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" = id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14859"> 'Discworld' is taking somethi= ng that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see = if something interesting happens when you do so. Terry Pratchett </spa= n></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span styl= e=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helve= tica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr= " id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51,= 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif= ; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14866"> I like wr= iting. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I wo= rk very hard on them. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "He= lvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14872"> When you read, I'm sure you don't re= alize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and= that place. Mine don't do that. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14883"> An author writes a book, = and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again,= then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean. Terry Pratc= hett Book, You, See I was a very keen reader of science fiction. Terry Prat= chett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_1= 3162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica N= eue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div= ><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"co= lor: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, A= rial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14894"= > If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put i= t past them - I'm in dead trouble. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"= ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, = 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-se= rif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &= quot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" = id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14896"> I got into science fiction by= being interested in astronomy first. Terry Pratchett </span></div><di= v dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color:= rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial= , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui= _3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-= family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size= : 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14908"> The thing is, 'Discw= orld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's b= ooks as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise i= t, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd fra= nchise it to myself. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui= _3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-= family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size= : 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335= _13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica= Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_14910">f One thing that writers have in common is that t= hey are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they'= re just infested with lots of stuff. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14921"> The only superstition I h= ave is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last = one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in pr= ogress. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0= _1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:= "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;= "><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"= ><span id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14923" style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, = 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;= font-size: 14px;"> 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&= nbsp;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162">= <span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&qu= ot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div = dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: r= gb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, = sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14936"> = ;I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comforta= ble with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to= spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I a= lmost miss that. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_1= 6_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-fami= ly: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14= px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1= _1497400051335_14938"> I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about= things. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14= 97400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quo= t;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br= ></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><spa= n style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue",= Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400= 051335_14944"> Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I some= times used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to m= ake certain it fits what was going to be happening soon. Terry Pratchett&nb= sp;</span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><s= pan style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"= ;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div di= r=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb= (51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sa= ns-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14951"> I= was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's i= t. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'. Terry Pratch= ett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_131= 62"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neu= e", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><= div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"colo= r: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ari= al, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14957">A= s far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I = don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't d= ie with an unfinished book. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"l= tr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 5= 1, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-ser= if; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_= 1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &q= uot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14964"> I've often felt depressed; eve= ryone feels depressed. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51= ); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; f= ont-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14974= 00051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "H= elvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14966">There can be no better grounding for a li= fetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through = the lens of the reporter for the town. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir= =3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(= 51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san= s-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14982"> I write books back to bac= k, and I work very hard on them. Terry Pratchett</span></div><div dir=3D"lt= r" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51= , 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-seri= f; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1= 497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &qu= ot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14984"> By the time you've reached your= sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at lea= st the beginning of wisdom. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"l= tr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 5= 1, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-ser= if; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_= 1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &q= uot;Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_14986"> I don't believe in the war god= of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and= large. Terry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0= _1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:= "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;= "><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"= ><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue&q= uot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14= 97400051335_14997"> I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I = saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I lear= ned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up. Terr= y Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740005= 1335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helve= tica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span= ></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style= =3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvet= ica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_= 14999">o Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voic= e and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be d= elivered in a matter of seconds on the stage. Terry Pratchett</span></div><= div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"colo= r: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ari= al, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fon= t-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-si= ze: 14px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_15005"> Neither of my pare= nts went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Chr= istian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine. T= erry Pratchett </span></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_149740= 0051335_13162"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "He= lvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></s= pan></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1497400051335_13162"><br></di= v></div></body></html> ------=_Part_9105927_1268179744.1497411309897--