“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is like alcohol - too much is bad for you, a little bit makes the world a better place. Like an… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat… — 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