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
Something as artificial and human as an hour wouldn't last five minutes here. It would be dried out and shrivelled up in seconds.
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.
You know me, Esme. I couldn't subtract a fart from a plate of beans.
There's a door.Where does it go?It stays where it is, I think.
Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
Always be aware of any helpful item that weighs less than it's operating manual.
Humans need fantasy to be human. Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act, like there was some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged:Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point?My point exactly.
...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.
A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
Freedom without limits is just a word.
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.