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 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
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 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 book is not completely written until someone else has read it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on… — 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
“Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: "Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,"' he said. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They writes some bits o’ their letters in them wee codies. That’s a terrible thing tae do to a reader. It’s hard… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Artists and writers have always had a rather exaggerated idea about what goes on at a witches’ sabbat. This comes from spending… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The R is the wrong way roond and you left the A and a Y out of Anybody,' said Jeannie, because it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — 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
“An' writin' even goes on sayin' a man's wurds after he's deid ! Ye cannae tell me that's right!” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — 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
