Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. Terry Pratchett More Quotes by Terry Pratchett More Quotes From Terry Pratchett One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper. Terry Pratchett townsimportantknowing 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 eventsnightthinking 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 progresszerostories There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them. Terry Pratchett bookchildrenthinking Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror. Terry Pratchett horroradultsreading 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 dragonsflyingcutting 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-outdoewatches Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. Terry Pratchett ifswould-betrying Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics. Terry Pratchett good-readsmenbelieve 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 cuttingrunningbook 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 stylebookthinking 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. Terry Pratchett ridiculousseriousinteresting Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular. Terry Pratchett witchwantordinary They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers! Terry Pratchett taks It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you. Terry Pratchett thinking-about-youknowingpeople See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin. Terry Pratchett pinspickslong One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet. Terry Pratchett diesone-dayimportant Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do. Terry Pratchett missinganswerssaid People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why. Terry Pratchett busywonderpeople This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. Terry Pratchett personstwobook
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