I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.
I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.
I'd like to walk on the moon (and return).
Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.
I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.
I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.
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.
Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.
TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.
If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!
Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them.
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.
I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.
Who knows what the future holds.
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.
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.
The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.
Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.
No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.
Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.
There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.
There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them.
The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.
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