That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Rincewind picked up a spare paper and read it. It was headed: Examination for the post of Assistant Night-Soil Operative for the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Pigbog wished he’d paid more attention to the Book of Revelation. If he’d known he was going to be in it, he’d… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it… — 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
I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory. — 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
And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about… — 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
“That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't… — 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
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
“I would like to apologize to the relatives of the fan who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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
For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Necrotelicomnicon was written by a Klatchian necromancer known to the world as Achmed the Mad, although he preferred to be called… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“On the other side of the curtain, children were squabbling, a baby was crying, and there was the smell of rat-and-cabbage casserole.… — 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
