Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Terry Pratchett (English Fantasy Writer)

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015,) fully Terence David John Pratchett, was an English author of humorous fantasy and science fiction. He is best known for his ‘Discworld’ series, a sharp and comic enduring parody of both traditional sword-and-sorcery and contemporary culture. His books sold more than 85 million copies worldwide, and he was one of Britain’s top-selling authors of the 1990s.

Born in Beaconsfield, north-west of London, Pratchett spent his early career as a journalist and press officer. His first fantasy novel, The Carpet People (1971) and the first in the Discworld series, The Colour of Magic (1983) brought literary fame.

Pratchett wrote numerous Discworld novels, including Wyrd Sisters (1988) and The Last Hero (2001,) often set in the fabled city of Ankh Morpork. In all, Pratchett produced 40 books for the Discworld series and inspired radio, comic books, television, and video game adaptations. He also collaborated with Neil Gaiman on Good Omens (1990,) an acclaimed comic novel about the apocalypse.

Pratchett wrote the acclaimed is the Bromeliad trilogy of children’s literature, Truckers (1989,) Diggers (1990,) and Wings (1990.) He also produced fiction for children, such as The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001; Carnegie Medal,) The Wee Free Men (2003,) and A Hat Full of Sky (2004.)

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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half-full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half-empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
Terry Pratchett
Topics: Attitude

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett
Topics: Light

It’s not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
Terry Pratchett
Topics: Weapon

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.
Terry Pratchett

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up
Terry Pratchett
Topics: Genius

The pen is mightier than the sword—only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp
Terry Pratchett
Topics: Weapon

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.
Terry Pratchett
Topics: People

I’d rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
Terry Pratchett

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett
Topics: Technology

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
Terry Pratchett
Topics: Meaning, Purpose

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