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
They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.
If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged
You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.
SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.
Fate can be one mean god at times.
On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.
I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.