All Terry Pratchett Quotes
- Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is… Avenue
- For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering… Author
- I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys… Add
- I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use… Believe
- I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice… Amiable
- I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than… Awards
- I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it… Any
- I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for… Best
- I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that… Biggest
- I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are… Bad
- I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly… Actually Quite
- I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author… Author
- In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down… All
- Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without… Elizabethan
- My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing… Aim
- One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested… Common
- Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well… Amount
- The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if… Book
- The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a… Been
- You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did… Dr
- Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with… Cave
- The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it… Any
- Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries. Banana
- Everywhere I look, I see something holy. Everywhere
- It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but… All