Terry Pratchett Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Progress just means bad things happen faster.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Progress, Faster

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.317, Random House

• That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.

  Terry Pratchett

  Song, Real, Nice

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

• His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ignorance, Progress, Disability

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.271, Random House

• The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Fire, Cities

• I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.

  Terry Pratchett

  Zero, Progress, Stories

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Progress, Superstitions

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