Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time.… — 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
