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
What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.
Some of my best sources are ex-policemen, just to get a feeling of what it's like to be one. And it's quite different from being a civilian - except, of course, that I believe that policemen are just special sorts of civilians. Things like how hard it is to hold someone that doesn't want to be held. This is the kind of thing that is worth knowing.
One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.
Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.
That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.
If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.
IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.
Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.