Firsts Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

— Terry Pratchett

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

— Terry Pratchett

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

— Terry Pratchett

Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

— Terry Pratchett

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I…

— Terry Pratchett

First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave…

— Terry Pratchett

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

— Terry Pratchett

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not…

— Terry Pratchett

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look…

— Terry Pratchett

One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth.…

— Terry Pratchett

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because…

— Terry Pratchett

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape…

— Terry Pratchett

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then…

— Terry Pratchett

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins…

— Terry Pratchett

Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears…

— Terry Pratchett

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans…

— Terry Pratchett

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me…

— Terry Pratchett

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the…

— Terry Pratchett

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the…

— Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the…

— Terry Pratchett

You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was…

— Terry Pratchett

For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting…

— Terry Pratchett

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley…

— Terry Pratchett

That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old…

— Terry Pratchett

I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door…

— Terry Pratchett

You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our…

— Terry Pratchett

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

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in…

— Terry Pratchett

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into…

— Terry Pratchett

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his…

— Terry Pratchett

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream…

— Terry Pratchett

Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be…

— Terry Pratchett

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But…

— Terry Pratchett

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was…

— Terry Pratchett