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
Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time) — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting… — 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
As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next. — 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
