Terry Pratchett Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, People, Bells

• I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dark, Thinking, Games

  Source: bobneilson.org

• There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

  Terry Pratchett

  Numbers, Definitions, Hell

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2012). “Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far”, p.201, Hachette UK

• Things just happen. What the hell.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hell, Happens

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.12, Random House

• If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Arrows, Evil

• The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Heart, Sight

  "Eric: A Novel of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

• First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Book, Cutting

• Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rain, Believe, Flames

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