Terry Pratchett Quotes

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeWordsPeopleIdeasThinkYou

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Jim Caviezel

SufferingLookAnythingUndergo

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

Jez Butterworth

RunLittleGoingShowUnderstood

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Anna Sewell

BusinessNowSayOppressionSee

The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.

Jeff Giles

GodWisdomWorldChanceLoseCareer

Flu can be serious, and it kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Vaccination is easier and more convenient than ever, so get yourself and your family protected.

Tom Frieden

FamilyYourselfYearSeriousFlu

Sometimes when you're inside a story, it's almost better if you don't think too much about its wider cultural significance or if you don't think about how audiences might react to it. That takes you out of the reality of the situation you're committing to as you're telling the story.

Riz Ahmed

StoryThinkRealityBetterYou

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

Russel Honore

StormNew YorkCityNewTwoMost

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

Mike Ross

ServiceCareerCongressBecomeNever

Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.

Douglas Rushkoff

TimeDecisionExperienceNowFlow

I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone's muse would be flattering, but it could get old fast.

Ari Graynor

PowerMyselfWorldSomeoneBackOld

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

Syd Barrett

WorkGoodDoneTwoYearsLast

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

Sean Combs

GoodGrowing UpThinkGrowingSay

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