People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer,… — 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
