Fiction Quotes by Terry Pratchett

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

— Terry Pratchett

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

— Terry Pratchett

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

— Terry Pratchett

“We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.”

— Terry Pratchett

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

— Terry Pratchett

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

— Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

— Terry Pratchett

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used…

— Terry Pratchett

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're…

— Terry Pratchett

“That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.”

— Terry Pratchett

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written…

— Terry Pratchett

I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out…

— Terry Pratchett

“Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable…

— Terry Pratchett

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has…

— Terry Pratchett

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science…

— Terry Pratchett

“Farther down the riverbank sat a young man dressed all in white. He was the only person in sight. His hair was…

— Terry Pratchett

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts…

— Terry Pratchett

I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend…

— Terry Pratchett

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a…

— Terry Pratchett