While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well. Final lines of his Richard Dimbleby lecture Shaking Hands With Death on euthanasia and assisted suicide, quoted in "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal" in The Guardian (2 February 2010).If I knew that I could die, I would live. As I have said, I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds. If we are to live in a world where a socially acceptable "early death" can be allowed, it must be allowed as a result of careful consideration. I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.Nerds are the only people who know how to operate the video recorder.The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.Interview, quoted in "Words from the Master" in The Annotated Pratchett File.I make no suggestion that one side or the other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true. That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans:Ī European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I suspect it'll never get a US publication. On the lack of chapters in Discworld books, in an interview by Gavin J.I can see what their purpose is in children's books ("I'll read to the end of the chapter, and then you must go to sleep") but I'm blessed if I know what function they serve in books for adults. Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.Relatively Einstein episode 3, "Fantasy Physics" (18 January 2005) the Discworld version of this statement appears in Night Watch (2002).As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die.Quote attributed to unknown author, in Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Cats : And the People Who Love Them (2004) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Sharon J.Variant: In ancient times, cats were worshiped as gods.7, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul : What I Learned from the Cat (2009) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark Pratchett is credited as author of this, as quoted in Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (2007) by Dusty Rainbolt, p.In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods they have not forgotten this.Response to a question asking if he would appear on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire. No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure.On his early computers, from a talk "When I Were A Lad, We Used To Dream of 64K" at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Scotland, (August 2005).Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1998) by David Pringle, and The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy (2003) by David Pringle.Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1998) by David Pringle, ISBN 0-87951-937-1, and The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy (2003) by David Pringle, ISBN 1-84442-930-X. Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.Cited in Power Quotes: For Life, Business, and Leadership (2018) by Danai Krokou, ISBN 1-63157-750-6.A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? General sources We are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was. Quotes Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. 1.11 "I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008).Commissioned by Dean and Chapter to mark the 300th anniversary of the topping out of Sir Christopher Wren's cathedral building. Text projections by public artist Martin Firrell onto the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
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