Terry Pratchett Quotes

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Fantasy is like an exercise bicycle for the mind. - Terry Pratchett quote.
Fantasy is like an exercise bicycle for the mind.
— Terry Pratchett The Wand in the Word
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. - Terry Pratchett quote.
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
— Terry Pratchett Wordsmiths of Wonder: Fifty Interviews with Writers of the Fantastic
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish. - Terry Pratchett quote.
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.
— Terry Pratchett Small Gods

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If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. - Terry Pratchett quote.
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
— Terry Pratchett The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork.  They have failed.  Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. - Terry Pratchett quote.
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork.  They have failed.  Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder.
— Terry Pratchett Mort
The world has gone strange. You can't tell the reality from the fantasy anymore. Think I'm kidding? On the racks at the supermarket are "newspapers" like the Sun, the Midnight Star, the Weekly World News. Typical lead story: Elvis has been found alive in a UFO dredged from the Bermuda Triangle. People read this stuff. It's not even good SF [science fiction]. They have a vote, same as you. - Terry Pratchett quote.
The world has gone strange. You can't tell the reality from the fantasy anymore. Think I'm kidding? On the racks at the supermarket are "newspapers" like the Sun, the Midnight Star, the Weekly World News. Typical lead story: Elvis has been found alive in a UFO dredged from the Bermuda Triangle. People read this stuff. It's not even good SF [science fiction]. They have a vote, same as you.
— Terry Pratchett A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction

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