Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. — 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
“The best man. You know? He hands you the ring and has to marry the bride if you ran away and so… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Her books on alchemy were marvellous objects, every page a work of the engraver's art, but they nowhere contained instructions like "Be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Death paused, his hand on the spine of the book. And why do you think I directed you to the stables? think… — 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
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 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 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
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
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He savoured the moment. He’d like to take this moment and press it carefully in a big book, so that when he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. — 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
I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French… — 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'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
Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror. — 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
