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
Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.
It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.
You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all...
This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.
Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played.
Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.
Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.
A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.
Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.
In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.