Top 143 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

About Terry Pratchett

These are some quotes by English author Terry Pratchett Author, who lived between April 28, 1948 and March 12, 2015.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Terry Pratchett

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Terry Pratchett

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

Terry Pratchett

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Terry Pratchett

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

Terry Pratchett

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

Terry Pratchett

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

Terry Pratchett

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

Terry Pratchett

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Terry Pratchett

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