Terry Pratchett Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

  Terry Pratchett

  School, Library, Taught

• 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 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

• 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.

• I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Men, Weak Man

• 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

• I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Glasses, Hands

  "I'll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK", www.dailymail.co.uk. August 3, 2009.

• I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Library, Librarian

• Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

  Terry Pratchett

  Who I Am, Library, Journalism

• I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Library, Fiction

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