The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.