So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time) — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely… — 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
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
“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
