79 Terry Pratchett Quotes for You to Enjoy

Terry Pratchett

English Author

Born: Apr 28, 1948

Died: Mar 12, 2015

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Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling John Galsworthy Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony. Terry Pratchett

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I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that. Terry Pratchett

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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. Terry Pratchett

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I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. Terry Pratchett

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I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. Terry Pratchett

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference. Terry Pratchett

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I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' Terry Pratchett

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My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. Terry Pratchett

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I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. Terry Pratchett

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'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. Terry Pratchett

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I like being a writer. Terry Pratchett

Writer Like Being

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. Terry Pratchett

Death People Worry Bad About Morbid Most Talk

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'? Terry Pratchett

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