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 Librarian swung on. It was slow progress, because there were things he wasn't keen on meeting. Creatures evolved to fill every… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got… — 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
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It seemed quite logical to the Librarian that, since there were aisles where the shelves were on the outside then there should… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“AUTHOR’S NOTE The Morris dance . . . . . . is traditionally danced on May 1, to welcome in the summer.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And did the book have any adventures for people who had brown eyes and brown hair? No, no, no... it was the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of… — 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
For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This is no way to treat a book,” he said. “Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean,… — 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
