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
What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.
The place looked as though it had been visited by Gengiz Cohen (footnote: hence the term "wholesale destruction")
I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.
The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.