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
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.").
Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.
There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.
People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.
One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.
If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.
A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.