All Terry Pratchett Quotes
- Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. Beginning
- Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. Amazingly
- Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' Best
- When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't… Backwards
- When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. All
- In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new… Ago
- It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier… Among
- The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you… Been
- I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather… Believe
- My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who… Adult
- Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no… Barrel
- 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you… Discworld
- I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and… Add
- Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in… Bolshie
- No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about… Analysing
- There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that.… Amazing
- I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity,… Admire
- I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I… Alzheimer
- I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most… Alight
- I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which… Apart
- It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star… Bits
- My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just… Book
- The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I… Afterwards
- An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone… Author
- 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a… Been