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
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.
I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo!
I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts,
We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.
Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?
When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.
The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn.
Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.
The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case...
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.
Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the-ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be