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When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

~Terry Pratchett

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An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

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I like being a writer.

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I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

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If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

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Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

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When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

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I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

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Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

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For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: April 28th, 1948

Died: March 12th, 2015

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