Author Profile
Terry Pratchett
1948 – 2015 • English • Author
143
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Collected Meditations
Showing 143 quotesNeither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.— Terry Pratchett
There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.— Terry Pratchett
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's.— Terry Pratchett
Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.— Terry Pratchett
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
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.— Terry Pratchett
The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.— 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.— Terry Pratchett
When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.— Terry Pratchett
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
I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.— Terry Pratchett
I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.— Terry Pratchett
Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.— Terry Pratchett
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.— Terry Pratchett