Quotes from Terry Pratchett

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

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

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.