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
Humans need fantasy to be human. Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act, like there was some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged:Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point?My point exactly.
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.