3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.

The best research you can do is to talk to people.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.

Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

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.