Terry Pratchett

"I'm made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think."

- Terry Pratchett

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."

- Terry Pratchett

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

- Terry Pratchett

"The problem with being open-minded is that people will insist on trying to put things in their place."

- Terry Pratchett

"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam."

- Terry Pratchett

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."

- Terry Pratchett

"People are often so busy living that they never stopped to wonder why."

- Terry Pratchett

""The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.""

- Terry Pratchett

"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact."

- Terry Pratchett

""For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death.""

- Terry Pratchett

"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"

- Terry Pratchett

"There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story."

- Terry Pratchett

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."

- Terry Pratchett

"If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy."

- Terry Pratchett

"There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write."

- Terry Pratchett

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."

- Terry Pratchett

""If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.""

- Terry Pratchett

""Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.""

- Terry Pratchett

"The first draft is you just telling yourself the story."

- Terry Pratchett

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."

- Terry Pratchett

""Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.""

- Terry Pratchett

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."

- Terry Pratchett

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."

- Terry Pratchett

"Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for."

- Terry Pratchett

"Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them."

- Terry Pratchett

""Inside every older person is a younger person—wondering what the hell happened." ―Terry Pratchett"

- Terry Pratchett

"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."

- Terry Pratchett

"There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world."

- Terry Pratchett

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."

- Terry Pratchett

"Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self."

- Terry Pratchett

"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."

- Terry Pratchett

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

- Terry Pratchett

"No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect."

- Terry Pratchett

"The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football."

- Terry Pratchett

"In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."

- Terry Pratchett

"A witch ought never be frightened in the darkest forest because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her."

- Terry Pratchett

"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."

- Terry Pratchett