Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should. Terry Pratchett More Quotes by Terry Pratchett More Quotes From Terry Pratchett And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye. Terry Pratchett glasseseyebroken Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. Terry Pratchett being-realrealmean When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things! Terry Pratchett bvbmenchildren As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies. Terry Pratchett discworldflatsplanets A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course. Terry Pratchett magicsexworld London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line. Terry Pratchett carpeopleyears ... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse. Terry Pratchett gratefulblacknames People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour. Terry Pratchett waitinglongpeople The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day. Terry Pratchett humanitymorningpeople Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap. Terry Pratchett officehairpeople It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air. Terry Pratchett airfeetmen 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 fitnextsometimes I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. Terry Pratchett gamesmindthinking There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books. Terry Pratchett writingattitudebook 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 flubedperfect Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. Terry Pratchett governmentwonderfulbankers There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.' I've never, ever been able to do one. I remember one occasion at Warwick University, when Jack and Ian were at their wits' end because I couldn't get it. I felt totally ashamed. Terry Pratchett quadraticsquadratic-equationfans Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. Terry Pratchett make-you-thinkpeoplethinking There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory. Terry Pratchett territoryhatepeople I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. Terry Pratchett hardwritingbook
