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I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I

I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Thinking, Views
Interview conducted in advance of Terry Pratchett's National Book Festival appearance in Washington, D.C., www.epicreads.com. September 29, 2007.

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
Fun, People, Our Words

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Progress, Superstitions

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.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Book, Long

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

Terry Pratchett
Light, Together, Drs

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.

Terry Pratchett
Hate, Orange, Cinnamon

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

Terry Pratchett
Looks, Holy

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Terry Pratchett
Black, Discworld, Holes
Terry Pratchett (2014). “Night Watch”, p.11, A&C Black

Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.

Terry Pratchett
Nice, Mean, Play

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

Terry Pratchett
Simple, Keys, Games
"Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

Terry Pratchett
Hero, Needs, Caves
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Last Continent: (Discworld Novel 22)”, p.383, Random House

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Space, Silence
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.187, Random House

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Terry Pratchett
Grandmother, Average, Years

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

Terry Pratchett
Stars, Thoughtful, Night

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

Terry Pratchett
Men, Care, Azrael
"Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

Terry Pratchett
Confused, Ignorance, People

He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

Terry Pratchett
Wonder, Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.16, Harper Collins

I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.

Terry Pratchett
Fluffy, Unicorn

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

Terry Pratchett
Coffee, Beans, Spills

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

Terry Pratchett
Eggs, Castles, Ham
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.452, Random House

She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.

Terry Pratchett
Jobs, Taken, Dancing
"Hogfather". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1996.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Red Flags, Annoyed
"Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

Terry Pratchett
Adventure, Long, Missing

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Cutting, Long
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.41, Random House

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Terry Pratchett
Mean, Thinking, Might
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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