... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know what I'd really, really like? What I'd pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff… — 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
