Terry Pratchett Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Imagination, Upset

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Dec 07, 2016

• 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

• 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.

• The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

• In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Book, Character

• There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Character

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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