There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.

"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.