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
Terry Pratchett quotes about
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.
One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.
Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.