The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He would sit all night under the lamp, book of the moment in front of him, dictionary and thesaurus on either side,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not… — 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
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He could feel certainty draining away. And he’d always been certain.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of… — 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
