Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The thought constructed itself a piece at a time, like an incomplete jigsaw. Think, don't panic.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a door." "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what… — 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
“That’s what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there’s food to be caught and babies to be born and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out… — 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
