After you’ve been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
At least I know I’m bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.
Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
The price of being the best is having to be the best.
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien’s attic.
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don’t.
I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.
SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it’s wrong.
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
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.
The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can’t take character and plot apart from each other, really.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Some things are fairly obvious when it’s a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
It’s actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.