Writing Quotes by Terry Pratchett

I like being a writer.

— Terry Pratchett

“I cannot conceive not writing.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

— Terry Pratchett

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

— Terry Pratchett

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

— 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

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write…

— 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

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

— Terry Pratchett

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

“Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and…

— Terry Pratchett

I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting…

— 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

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

“Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: "Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,"' he said. This…

— Terry Pratchett

Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet…

— Terry Pratchett

They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their…

— Terry Pratchett

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got…

— Terry Pratchett

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir.…

— Terry Pratchett

“Artists and writers have always had a rather exaggerated idea about what goes on at a witches’ sabbat. This comes from spending…

— Terry Pratchett

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

“She gazed out across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork and reasoned like this: writing was only the words that people said, squeezed between…

— Terry Pratchett

In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,…

— Terry Pratchett

“I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find out…

— Terry Pratchett

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then…

— Terry Pratchett

Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you…

— Terry Pratchett

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

— Terry Pratchett

There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is…

— Terry Pratchett

“An' writin' even goes on sayin' a man's wurds after he's deid ! Ye cannae tell me that's right!”

— Terry Pratchett

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on…

— Terry Pratchett

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered…

— Terry Pratchett

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because…

— Terry Pratchett