I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other. — 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
