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  1. Terry Pratchett _ A Slip of the Keyboard:

    But most of all in the last couple of years I have been listening. As a journalist, I learned to listen. It is amazing how much people will tell you if you listen in the right way. Rob, my PA, says that I can listen like a vacuum cleaner. Always beware of somebody who is a really good listener.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ A Slip of the Keyboard:

    My first novel was published by the first publisher I sent it to. And so I've been learning as I go, and I find it now rather embarrassing that people beginning the Discworld series start with The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, which I don't think are some of the best books to start with. This is the author saying this, folks. Do not start at the beginning with Discworld.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ A Slip of the Keyboard:

    Apply logic in places where it wasn't intended to exist.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ A Slip of the Keyboard:

    Sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen is work. Thousands of offices operate on this very principle.
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ A Slip of the Keyboard:

    But it's what I call "The Valley Filled with Clouds" technique. You're at the edge of the valley, and there is a church steeple, and there is a tree, and there is a rocky outcrop, but the rest of it is mist. But you know that because they exist, there must be ways of getting from one to the other that you cannot see. And so you start the journey. And when I write, I write a draft entirely for myself, just to walk the valley and find out what the book is going to be all about.
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