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
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
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 Copy Share Image
There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 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
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