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Writing Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 of the book,…
- The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation…
- You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened…
- Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
- I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow…
- I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her…
- There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.
- [Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
- 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…
- I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you…
- The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs…
- Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts,…
- Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold