“My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.” MadeIdeasEnoughNovelGreenhouses Author:Terry Pratchett
“I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.” BookThreeGreenhouses Author:Terry Pratchett
“The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get noticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.” PeopleIfsYearsBookThreeYears AgoSellsListsAwfulThree YearsSellersTrackingBest SellersFoolproof Author:Terry Pratchett
“A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.” HarderBuyingChristmas Time Author:Terry Pratchett
“A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city.” IfsWayDifferentWholeMovingCitiesFantasyNovelBasesPoliceDifferent WaysCopMoving InDwarvesTroll Author:Terry Pratchett
“I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.” ThinkingBreadAwfulBakers Author:Terry Pratchett
“There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is bad - but there has been a lot of bad fantasy written by people who read a lot of fantasy and so all they keep doing is recycling it.” PeopleMeanHas BeensPastFantasyWrittenClassicRecycling Author:Terry Pratchett
“The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.” KnowsHomeNiceMysteryMurderPoliceClassicNice ThingsMurder Mysteries Author:Terry Pratchett
“Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror.” WayDarkFantasyHorrorAnother WayDark Fantasy Author:Terry Pratchett
