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“There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#People #Ankh #Way
“It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Cutting #Dragons #Flying
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Inspirational #Life #Spiritual
“I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Night #Thinking #Events
“Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Perspective #World #This World
“The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Book
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Change #Travel #Life Changing
“I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you can see Terry Pratchett in every book. I like doing it. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Book #Thinking #Style
“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Funny #Life #Men
“I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Zero #Progress #Stories
“THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Justice #Said
“By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Hate #Book #Writing
“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Dream #Needs #Wages
“After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Months #Six #Want
“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Thinking #Keys #Enough
“You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#People #Darkness #Grants
“HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Donâ€™t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Mean #Journey #Knives
“I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Work Out #Watches #Want
“Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Dog #Trying #Dexterity
“In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Attitude #Stupid #Mean
“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Coffee #Self #Rights
“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

#Book #Reading #Years
“No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Philosophy #Thinking #Mind
“There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Country #Race #Different
“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Pages #Soap #Truth Is
“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Mean #Progress #Faster
“You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Fantasy #Source #Draws
“Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Ideas #Dragons #Enemy
“The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Book #Thinking #Two
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
-- Terry Pratchett

#Life #Powerful #Stories

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