Terry Pratchett Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Interesting

• My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Terry Pratchett: 'If I'd known what a progressive brain disease could do for your PR profile I may have had one earlier'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.independent.co.uk. November 29, 2008.

• Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Space, Together

  "Going Postal". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 2010 -.

• I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Aging, Discrimination

• Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Mean, Hands

• People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Book, Simple

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

• The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beautiful, Girl, Book

  "The Wee Free Men". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

• The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Voice, Mysterious

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 30, 2015

• All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, People, Evil

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.234, Random House

• Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Trying

• The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.152, Random House

• He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Food, Book

• This book was written using 100% recycled words.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Recycled, Written

• The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Space, Silence

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.187, Random House

• In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Literature, Theory

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.24, Random House

• And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

  Terry Pratchett

  Growing Up, Book, Animal

• Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Needs, Sometimes

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.183, Random House

• It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Library, Would Be

  "The Light Fantastic (Discworld, Book 2)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

• These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

  Terry Pratchett

  Clever, Book, Literature

  "I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2010.

• They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they want to. This book is dedicated to those fine men.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Hero, Men

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

• Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Interesting, Trying

  "Thief of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

• There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Sight, Soul

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.49, Random House

• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Wish, Library

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