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
“It was no secret that the most highly balanced minds sometimes, well, overbalanced.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany. Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing.” — 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
I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I can play on their horrible little minds like a xylophone. It’s amazing, the sheer power of mundanity. Who’d have thought that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It appears, Mister Lipwig, that you do not understand the nature of our relationship. I ask, very politely, for you to achieve… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They’re always telling folk how much better it’s going to be when they’re dead. We tell them it could be pretty good… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Right,' he said uncertainty. His mind was grinding through the problem. She was a witch. Just lately there'd been a lot of… — 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
The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique." "Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He wondered what it was like in the Patrician’s mind. All cold and shiny, he thought, all blued steel and icicles and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If you let your mind dwell on rooms like this, you could end up being oddly sad and full of a strange… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into… — 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 drunk as a skunk, Drumknott, which of course means skunks are just as drunk as I. I must say the term is unfamiliar to me, and I had not thought hitherto of skunks in this context,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“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
