Writer Quotes by Terry Pratchett

I like being a writer.

— Terry Pratchett

You can't die with an unfinished book.

— Terry Pratchett

“I cannot conceive not writing.”

— Terry Pratchett

“He's going to go totally Librarian-poo.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them.”

— Terry Pratchett

"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".

— Terry Pratchett

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

— Terry Pratchett

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

— Terry Pratchett

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.

— Terry Pratchett

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

— Terry Pratchett

“The library was full of wizards, who care about their books in the same way that ants care about their eggs and…

— Terry Pratchett

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

— Terry Pratchett

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it…

— Terry Pratchett

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out…

— 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 have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the…

— Terry Pratchett

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

— 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

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

— 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

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best…

— 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

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

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

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

— Terry Pratchett

She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine…

— Terry Pratchett

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant…

— 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

I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere…

— Terry Pratchett

“The Librarian swung on. It was slow progress, because there were things he wasn't keen on meeting. Creatures evolved to fill every…

— Terry Pratchett

When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you…

— Terry Pratchett

Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

— Terry Pratchett

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

— Terry Pratchett