Terry Pratchett Quotes & Sayings (Page 14)
Terry Pratchett quotes and sayings page 14 (deceased author born on Apr 28, 1948). Here's quote # 131 through 140 out of the 143 we have for him.
“Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.”
“I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.”
“Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.”
“Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.”
“The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.”
“I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.”
“Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.”
“I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.”
“I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.”
“I like being a writer.”
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