Quotes About Pratchett

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

James Davis Nicoll, on the 1962 nominees: "Terry Pratchett has his own sword forged by his own hands from meteoric iron, which must be of considerable utility when negotiating contracts.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards)

Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.

Do you know how wizards like to be buried? Yes! Well, how? Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. Reluctantly.

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting 'All Gods are bastards.

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.

In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.

They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, as outline the darkness.

And then there was the headless horseman! said Tiffany. He had no head! Well, that is the major job qualification, said the toad.

He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms.

Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you, sir, that your polar ice caps are below regulation size for a planet of this category, sir.

Here's what I suggest, he said. You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.