Book Quotes by Terry Pratchett

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

— Terry Pratchett

You can't die with an unfinished book.

— Terry Pratchett

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

— Terry Pratchett

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

— Terry Pratchett

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

— Terry Pratchett

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

— Terry Pratchett

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

— Terry Pratchett

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

— Terry Pratchett

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

— Terry Pratchett

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

— Terry Pratchett

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

— Terry Pratchett

“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

— Terry Pratchett

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there…

— Terry Pratchett

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could…

— Terry Pratchett

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from…

— Terry Pratchett

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and…

— Terry Pratchett

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than…

— Terry Pratchett

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the…

— Terry Pratchett

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

— Terry Pratchett

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a…

— Terry Pratchett

There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the…

— Terry Pratchett

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a…

— Terry Pratchett

“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting…

— Terry Pratchett

The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when…

— Terry Pratchett

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting…

— Terry Pratchett

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because…

— Terry Pratchett

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me…

— Terry Pratchett

They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of…

— Terry Pratchett

The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither…

— Terry Pratchett

The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough…

— Terry Pratchett

For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting…

— Terry Pratchett

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been…

— Terry Pratchett

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

— Terry Pratchett

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and…

— Terry Pratchett

“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.”

— Terry Pratchett

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

— Terry Pratchett

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had…

— Terry Pratchett

It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit…

— Terry Pratchett