Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

The only superstition I have 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 progress.

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters will often help me write the book - not what they look like that's not very important - what people look like is not about their character. You have to describe the shape they leave in the world, how they react to things, what effect they have on people and you do that by telling their story.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.