Terry Pratchett quotes
Terry Pratchett
Birthdate: 28. April 1948
Date of death: 12. March 2015
Other names: Sir Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.
Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff became the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust , filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron for Alzheimer's Research UK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, aged 66.
Works
Hogfather
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Lords and Ladies
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Night Watch
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Witches Abroad
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Mort
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Going Postal
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Wyrd Sisters
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Reaper Man
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The Carpet People
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I Shall Wear Midnight
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The Light Fantastic
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Thief of Time
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A Hat Full of Sky
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Sourcery
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Equal Rites
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Snuff
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Monstrous Regiment
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Nation
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Soul Music
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Making Money
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Wintersmith
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Maskerade
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The Truth
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Unseen Academicals
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The Last Continent
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Feet of Clay
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Jingo
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Carpe Jugulum
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Pyramids
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Thud!
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The Unadulterated Cat
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Moving Pictures
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The Fifth Elephant
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The Shepherd's Crown
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The Long Earth
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Raising Steam
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Dodger
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Good Omens
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Only You Can Save Mankind
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Johnny and the Dead
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Interesting Times
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Johnny and the Bomb
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The Last Hero
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Diggers
Terry PratchettQuotes Terry Pratchett
„This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.“
— Terry Pratchett, book A Hat Full of Sky
Author's note, revised edition (1992).
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
„Tolkien's dead. J. K. Rowling said no. Philip Pullman couldn't make it. Hi, I'm Terry Pratchett.“
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Misc
„The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.“
— Terry Pratchett, book Diggers
The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)
Variant: The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.
Source: Diggers (1990)
„It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.“
— Terry Pratchett, book The Last Continent
General sources
Variant: It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. This is in fact true. It's called living.
Source: The Last Continent
„Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.“
Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1998) by David Pringle, and The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy (2003) by David Pringle
General sources
„Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.“
— Terry Pratchett, book A Hat Full of Sky
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
„In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.“
Pratchett is credited as author of this, as quoted in Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (2007) by Dusty Rainbolt, p. 7, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul : What I Learned from the Cat (2009) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark
Quote attributed to unknown author, in Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Cats : And the People Who Love Them (2004) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Sharon J. Wohlmuth, p. 1
General sources
Variant: In ancient times, cats were worshiped as gods. They have never forgotten this.
„In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.“
— Terry Pratchett, book Lords and Ladies
Source: Lords and Ladies
„DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.“
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
