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Terry Pratchett
1948 – 2015 • English • Author
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Showing 71 quotesI think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.— Terry Pratchett
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.— Terry Pratchett
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.— Terry Pratchett
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.— Terry Pratchett
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Intelligence
As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.— Terry Pratchett
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'— Terry Pratchett
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.— Terry Pratchett
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.— Terry Pratchett
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Alone
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.— Terry Pratchett
It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.— Terry Pratchett
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Death
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'— Terry Pratchett
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.— Terry Pratchett
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Science
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.— Terry Pratchett
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.— Terry Pratchett
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.— Terry Pratchett