When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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
Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — 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
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of… — 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
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at… — 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
