I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

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

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very 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 punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'