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
I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.