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
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It was already growling, and the growl was a low, rumbling snarl of spring-coiled menace, the sort of growl that starts in the back of one throat and ends up in someone else's.
...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.
A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist.
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
Freedom without limits is just a word.
People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.