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"It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing."

- I love that one. It's going on a T-shirt.

He once visited Sweetens bookshop (now, sadly, closed - I miss it [and the cute, heavily freckled redhead who sold me many a book there!]) to sign copies of The Fifth Elephant; my mum, rest her soul, got me one for my birthday.

Who was that idiot critic who ranted: "...doesn't even write in chapters...hasn't a clue"? I put it to him that he was the clueless one - Terry's Discworld novel sales were up in the several tens of millions by this point, so even to someone who hadn't read his work, it surely must have seemed he was getting something right, yes? Mind you, Heinlein had it right when he (via Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love) said: "A 'critic' is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the creative work of others. There is logic in this; he is unbiased - he hates all creative people equally."

We'll all miss you, Terry.