But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

There is no wealth but life.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

Life loves the liver of it.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

It is natural to die as to be born.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Of course awards matter.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Winning ‚Motor Trend‘ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

I think I belong to America’s last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.