Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBEwas an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971; after the first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 April 1948
CityBeaconsfield, England
Insanity is catching.
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.
I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.
Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!
I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.