“This is so inconvenient. But there is no doubt.” She paused for a moment and said: “I will die the day after… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This is nothing personal, you understand," said Charley to Nobby. "It's just a wossname. Had a wizard in here the other night… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The very fabric of time and space is about to be put through the wringer.” — 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
“They opened the ledger. They looked at it for a long time. Then Mort said, “What do all those symbols mean?” “Sodomy… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were times when you could feel that the world would be a better place if Annagramma got the occasional slap around… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And because sometimes you get a good day, that makes up for all the bad days and, just for a moment, you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they… — 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
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.” — 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
“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
“Young Sam looked solemn for a moment and then said, "I think I'll let Mr. Whistle do the being scared and then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream… — 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
