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
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.
There's a door.Where does it go?It stays where it is, I think.
Something as artificial and human as an hour wouldn't last five minutes here. It would be dried out and shrivelled up in seconds.
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.
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.
I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.
I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.