Book Quotes by Terry Pratchett

You can't die with an unfinished book.

— Terry Pratchett

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

— Terry Pratchett

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

— Terry Pratchett

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

— Terry Pratchett

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

— Terry Pratchett

“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.”

— Terry Pratchett

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

— Terry Pratchett

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

“... the bestselling novel taking the Ankh-Morpork literary world by storm was dedicated to Commander Samuel Vimes. The title of the book…

— Terry Pratchett

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by…

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

— Terry Pratchett

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

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that…

— Terry Pratchett

It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit…

— Terry Pratchett

I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor…

— Terry Pratchett

I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out…

— Terry Pratchett

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour…

— Terry Pratchett

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in…

— Terry Pratchett

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical…

— Terry Pratchett

It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the…

— Terry Pratchett

The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people…

— Terry Pratchett

“A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken…

— 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

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

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

For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough…

— Terry Pratchett

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and…

— Terry Pratchett

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

— Terry Pratchett

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

— Terry Pratchett

“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will…

— 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