No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
Interpretation
Authors deeply reflect on their thoughts and perspectives, leading to personal philosophies.
Terry Pratchett highlights the introspective nature of authors, emphasizing that they engage in critical self-examination of their thoughts and beliefs. This analytical process not only influences their writing but also fosters the development of a personal philosophy shaped by their unique insights and experiences.
In practice
During a writers' workshop, someone might use this quote to emphasize the importance of introspection in developing a unique writing style.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.
Man differs more from man than man from beast
If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
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