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
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!
If Not You, Who Else?
If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania
We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.
If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged
What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.