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Interesting Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort…
- Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground…
- Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and…
- He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes…
- You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know…
- If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read…
- '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…
- 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…
- 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…
- … people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually…
- Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard…
- Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
- Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie.…
- That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does…
- 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 book on the…
- He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and…
- Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once…
- It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand…
- Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
- Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.
- Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person,…
- That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.
- He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes…
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- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster
- What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm… — Jensen Ackles
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles
- I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that… — Lester Bangs
- A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. — Walter Bagehot