My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots. – Terry Pratchett
It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death. – Terry Pratchett
I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off. – Terry Pratchett
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government. – Terry Pratchett
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 came up with. – Terry Pratchett
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its 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
If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, 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