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Terry Pratchett Quotes about Progress

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Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Terry Pratchett
Mean, Progress, Faster
Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.317, Random House

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Terry Pratchett
Ignorance, Progress, Disability
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.271, Random House

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
Source: www.theguardian.com

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

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