I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.
I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.
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.
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
