Quote Of The Day

[den]

"Have you heard of Lord Of The Rings? Apparently it's big in New Zealand."

Terry Pratchett, in an interview on radio Triple J

Comments

[tiado-ab.livejournal.com]

What? *Laughs*

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It was a hilarious interview. He metioned people doing PhDs on his work and sending them to him "And they're full of really long words like 'corrugated iron' and 'marmalade.'"

[quatranoctal.livejournal.com]

Not to mention when he was asked what he would do in his spare time.
(TP = PTerry, AS = Adam Spencer)

TP: Spare time?
AS: If you had one day when you were banned from writing, what would you do?
TP: Die, I suppose.

And then going on to explain that while he accepted having to go through the whole editing and nit-picking as part of writing a book, his reward when writing was "if you're really good, they might let you start writing another book".

I wish I went to the Dymocks speech tonight :( or the special dinner last night that was invitation-only :'( but I did go to the Dymocks event last time he was here, and if anyone wants some of the highlights from that I can dig them up. (Yay I got 4 books signed today! Including one I picked up from remainders at another bookstore for under $5 XD)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's not bloody fair. You'd think that after writing about Fourecks he'd want to see towns called Dubbo.