Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — 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
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
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of… — 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
“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put… — 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
