And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.
You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.
I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you line them up as actually as you possibly can, but sooner or later the book has got momentum and it's moving along under that momentum. It's like a sculpture, if you're working with the grain of the wood, the wood will start defining what shape it's going to become.
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.
There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal.
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.
Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.
The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.
Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror.
People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.
It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.
What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.
Who knows what the future holds.
I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.
It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.
Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them.
TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.
Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.
A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.
I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.
After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
