I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of… — 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
There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — 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
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies… — 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
Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
