Terry Pratchett Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Imagination, Upset

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Dec 07, 2016

• I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

  Terry Pratchett

  Imagination, Looks, Invention

• Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

  Terry Pratchett

  Imagination, Made, Small Gods

  Foreword to "The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy" by David Pringle, 1998.

• Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Sleep, Imagination

• I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Imagination, Trying

• 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

• Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Imagination, Looks, Said

• It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.

  Terry Pratchett

  Glowing, Purple, Imagination

  "The Colour of Magic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1983.

• He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Imagination, Interesting

• Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Imagination, Fortune Telling

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