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
As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.
There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.
Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
It's a god-eat-god world.
In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.
Given enough coffee I could rule the world
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.