3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

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.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

I like being a writer.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

The universe was bad enough without people poking it.

And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.