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
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.
I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.
Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.
Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.
Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.
Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.
We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
- I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK WOULD HOLD. - "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?