One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
