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
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’
Given enough coffee I could rule the world
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?
Things just happen. What the hell.
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits.
The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.
We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience
If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.