Terry Pratchett Quotes (144 quotes)

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„Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.“
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Picture of quotation author Terry Pratchett
„When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.“
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„I like being a writer.“
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Picture of quotation author Terry Pratchett
„Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.“
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„Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.“
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„I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.“
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Picture of quotation author Terry Pratchett
„I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.“
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„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.“
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„I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.“
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„The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.“
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„Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.“
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„One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.“
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„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.“
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„'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.“
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„It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.“
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„If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.“
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Picture of quotation author Terry Pratchett
„I was a very keen reader of science fiction.“
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Picture of quotation author 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.“
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Picture of quotation author Terry Pratchett
„The harder I work, the luckier I become.“
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Picture of quotation author Terry Pratchett
„'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.“
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Terry Pratchett
Author born: April 28, 1948
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Author

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