This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am of course delighted and honoured and,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who… — 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
She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered… — 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
