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No book or magazine article is for "everyone" so know your audience, then target them with your writing.


W. Terry Whalin

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TERRY PRATCHETT Don't worry, it's not loaded.
TERRY KATH Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and...
TERRY PRATCHETT No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"<...
TERRY PRATCHETT Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended....
TERRY PRATCHETT Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industri...
TERRY GLAVIN When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other ...
TERRY BRADSHAW I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is grow...
TERRY PRATCHETT I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
TERRY SOUTHERN As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to I...
TERRY GLAVIN A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of M...
TERRY GLAVIN Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain...
TERRY SOUTHERN What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a...
TERRY WOGAN Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every...
JOHN TERRY I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the pr...
TERRY PRATCHETT Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what mig...
TERRY TEACHOUT Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
TERRY PRATCHETT There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from differ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...
TERRY PRATCHETT It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and th...
TERRY PRATCHETT My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my...
TERRY WOGAN I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying...
TERRY BRANSTAD Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM