Terry Pratchett Quotes

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Terry Pratchett

Profession : Author

Birth : April 28, 1948

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've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

Terry Pratchett

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

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

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

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Terry Pratchett

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Terry Pratchett

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

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

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Terry Pratchett

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Terry Pratchett

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

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

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

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

Terry Pratchett

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

Terry Pratchett

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Terry Pratchett

Neither 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