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
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
"God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley.… — 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
I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead! — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a door." "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind. — 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