“Now look ," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Saw a funny thing this mornin’,” he said. “Saw a monkey in the quad. Bold as brass.” “Oh, yes,” said the Bursar,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because… — 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
