Terry Pratchett, 52 Minutes of

31 March 2007 (11:23) Interviews Terry Pratchett News News Archives

For an amazing fifty-two minutes of Terry Pratchett, check out ABC’s Conversation Hour from February 14^th, when Terry Pratchett was in Australia. Pratchett talks about the writing process, his stint as a spokesperson, and Wintersmith.  To quote the accompanying article:

“I like writing. I mean I really like writing and everywhere I go, with me, including right here in the studio I have a really really tiny little computer and a fold out keyboard and I can get on with my writing. It’s a journalistic thing - I can sit and work anywhere. And it’s something I like doing. I mean that, that’s the horrible thing.”

 

“Once, very nearly the plot of a whole novel occurred to me while I was driving. So I phoned up a friend and dictated the basic details to him. I said, ‘For God’s sake, don’t lose the piece of paper!’ These days I have little cassette recorder in the vehicle.”

 

Writing furiously whilst working on a novel is one thing, but Terry says he can’t lay still for long between novels either. “I usually start the next book on the same day that I finish the last book. Now this is not actually as horrifying as it sounds.”