Terry Pratchett Quotes

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Topics

HistoryStartReadingInteresting

The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.

Jillian Michaels

ChangeStressYouBodyAdaptMore

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

John Irving

MindImportantFirstDustSeeBegin

Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.

Ann Cotton

WomenPowerMoneyMenConnection

A nice quick workout is the stairs; it takes me five minutes to do 24 floors.

Amy Jo Martin

MeStairsNiceQuickFiveMinutes

Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.

Logic

WomenManStrongerPreciousThan

It's 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.

Julia Michaels

MenMoreThanEverVulnerable

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

Jon Meacham

ReligionIdentitySayQuestioning

Let me just say, I think there's a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq.

Dexter Filkins

MeThinkCriticismSayWayLeft

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Dorothea Brande

FireManMindRatherContainer

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

Cole Sprouse

GreatEmpathyActingHumanReal

By the age of nine, I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.

Wladyslaw Reymont

AgeKnowledgeLiteratureLadyThirty

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Shelley Winters

NowOverSixtyRespectabilityToward

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