AUTHOR | TERRY PRATCHETT
Terry Pratchett | Novelist, Comic fantasy
Bio:
Sir Terence David John 'Terry' Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. after the first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. His final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carne
Born: 1948-04-28
Born in: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 2015-03-12
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All Quotes from the Author Terry Pratchett 213
“ You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not sa...
“ Death: 'THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN AL...
“ The reaper does not listen to the harvest.
“ Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it t...
“ The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know whe...
“ Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in p...
“ The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
“ YOU FEAR TO DIE?'It's not that I don't want... I mea...
“ I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh...
“ Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!
“ I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.
“ Ankh-Morpork is a godless city--''I thought it had m...
“ I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t s...
“ It would seem that you have no useful skill or talen...
“ Magrat liked to think she was good with children, an...
“ In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.