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")
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.
I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.
When I am old I shall wear midnight.
Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.
Everything is a test.
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly.
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
What's money interested in? More money.
Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.