Writing Quotes by Terry Pratchett

I like being a writer.

— Terry Pratchett

“I cannot conceive not writing.”

— Terry Pratchett

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

— Terry Pratchett

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

— Terry Pratchett

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

— Terry Pratchett

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

— Terry Pratchett

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

— Terry Pratchett

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

— Terry Pratchett

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

— Terry Pratchett

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

— Terry Pratchett

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

— Terry Pratchett

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

— Terry Pratchett

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write…

— Terry Pratchett

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the…

— Terry Pratchett

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

— Terry Pratchett

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

“He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of…

— Terry Pratchett

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era…

— Terry Pratchett

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

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in…

— Terry Pratchett

“How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and…

— Terry Pratchett

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical…

— Terry Pratchett

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

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a…

— Terry Pratchett

In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,…

— Terry Pratchett

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts…

— Terry Pratchett

“She gazed out across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork and reasoned like this: writing was only the words that people said, squeezed between…

— Terry Pratchett

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir.…

— Terry Pratchett

“Artists and writers have always had a rather exaggerated idea about what goes on at a witches’ sabbat. This comes from spending…

— Terry Pratchett

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of…

— Terry Pratchett

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's…

— Terry Pratchett

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

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from…

— Terry Pratchett

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow…

— Terry Pratchett

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used…

— Terry Pratchett

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put…

— Terry Pratchett

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

— Terry Pratchett

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

— Terry Pratchett