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
So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.
There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.
Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.
The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.
He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.
His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.