In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Repent!’” Nanny Ogg went on. “Repent? Me? Cheek! I can’t start repenting at my time of life. I’d never get any work… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“...this is the room where the future pours into the past via the pinch of now.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The gods of the Disc—and here is meant the great consensus gods, who really do exist in Dunmanifestin, their semi-detached Valhalla on… — 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
I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You fight a war to change the world, and it changes into a world with no place in it for you, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They live their lives as a sort of temporal blur around the point where their body actually is – anticipating the future,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“... and all those frogs going 'Rabbit, rabbit'..." "I think, sir, that it was 'Ribbit, ribbit'..." "So, what goes 'Rabbit, rabbit'?" "Rabbits,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“SEE! I HAVE TIME. AT LAST, I HAVE TIME Albert backed away nervously. ‘And now that you have it, what are you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There will be justice', said Brutha. 'If there is no justice, there is nothing'. He was aware of a small voice in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“For a moment the rank felt as though they had just returned from single-handedly conquering a distant province. They felt, in fact,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He knew how she felt. It was the way he felt himself, sometimes, if he woke in the small hours, at three… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There was an old military saying that Fred Colon used to describe total bewilderment and confusion. An individual in that state, according… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we… — 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
