Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it. — 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
