I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the… — 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
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And… — 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
