He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there’s still a market for rubbish. I picked up a recently written fantasy book at the weekend, and one character said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Her books on alchemy were marvellous objects, every page a work of the engraver's art, but they nowhere contained instructions like "Be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I would like to apologize to the relatives of the fan who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He savoured the moment. He’d like to take this moment and press it carefully in a big book, so that when he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This is no way to treat a book,” he said. “Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“XXI. But Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, This is the Sign I give you: XXII. If You Do Not See What You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Pigbog wished he’d paid more attention to the Book of Revelation. If he’d known he was going to be in it, he’d… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
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