No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is bad - but there has been a lot of bad fantasy written by people who read a lot of fantasy and so all they keep doing is recycling it.

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

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.