Top 143 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.