Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The book is not completely written until someone else has read it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such. — 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
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people… — 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
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — 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
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
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 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
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit… — 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
“... the bestselling novel taking the Ankh-Morpork literary world by storm was dedicated to Commander Samuel Vimes. The title of the book… — 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
All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you… — 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
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
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 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
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — 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
“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
