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Terry Pratchett Quotes

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I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) 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 Quotes) By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) Just because you’ve got a mind like a hammer doesn’t mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That’s what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can’t avoid it  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn’t good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn’t worked  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) It’s very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) The best research is the research that you don’t know that you are doing  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn’t actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) After you’ve been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) You’ve got a lot of time for abstract thought when you’ve got your hand stuck up a dead badger  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) You can’t find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) I’m fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in  (Terry Pratchett Quotes) The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can’t take character and plot apart from each other, really  (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
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