The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
Terry PratchettMy 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 PratchettIn all seriousness, 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 some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.
Terry PratchettI [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ยญbefore the disease mounted its last ยญattack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ยญversion of the "Brompton cocktail" some ยญhelpful medic could supply. And with ยญThomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.
Terry Pratchett