One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man… — 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
Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look… — 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
