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
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.
People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
When in doubt, choose to live.
Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.
Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.