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
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae… — 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
Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back. — 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
The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a… — 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
