from various pratchett interviews and articles i'm reading online instead of getting on with my old english translations:

Various organisations started paying me money to go and talk to them. This embarrassed me somewhat, until I heard about the Orangutan foundation. I rang them up. I said, “I seem to be getting all this money, would you like it?” A cautious voice said, “Yes?”

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Incidentally, an early Australian rival to Marmite was tentatively called Pawill, although the proposed slogan, “If Marmite, Pawill,” was never used as far as I know, possibly because of police intervention.

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And the moment, live on air, when we realised that an under-informed New York radio interviewer with ten minutes of chat still to go thought Good Omens was not a work of fiction...

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Oh, and the default printer on the network is not, in fact, the one next to this machine. I find this out when someone rings down and says, “There’s some rather odd stuff coming out of the laserjet in the manager’s office. Who is Captain Vimes, mate?”

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I have been writing Discworld books for the better part of two decades. They have, I hope, brought pleasure to millions, and it almost seems unfair to say that at least they’ve brought fun and money to one.

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