Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my… — 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
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a… — 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
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has… — 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